Proto-Semitic root
*ʾVrz-
‘cedar’
di Mino’s gloss: cedar
Record 2735 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor
In Linear A1 entry
Notes
Geez ʾarz ‘cedar’ (CDG 41; < Ar/Heb). Akkadian erēnu ‘cedar’ (CAD E 274) is another word.
Reflexes7 languages
East Semitic1
- Eblaiticar-za-tum /ʔarzatum/ (VE 471 apud SEDonline 425; Krebernik 1983, 17)ar-za /ʾarz/ar-za-tum /ʾarzat/ (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 43–44)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic4
- Ugariticarz (DULAT 109)gloss withheld
- Hebrewʔerez (HALOT 86)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicʾarzā (LGz. 41; Payne Smith 28)
- Mandaic Aramaicarza (LGz. 41; MD 37)
Arabic1
- Arabicʔarz- ‘cedar’ (BK 1, 24)
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian1
- Soqotriʾárz (Kogan 2011, 202)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.