Proto-Semitic root

*ḥayy-

‘to live, be alive; life’

di Mino’s gloss: to live; life, the living

In Linear A4 entries

Eblaiticʔà-u₉ /ḥayyu(m)/ DN (= ᵈEN.KI, Akk. Ea), from ḥ-y-y/w (VE 803; Krebernik 1983, 31)a-ʔà-a /ḥ-w-y, ḥ-y-y/ʔà-u₉ /ḥay(ya)/ (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 260–261)gloss withheld

Ugaritic/ḥ-w/y-y/ (DULAT 374)gloss withheld
Phoenicianḥwy (B 308)ḥwy (Krahmalkov 178)ḥym (T 103)gloss withheld
Hebrewḥay (HALOT 308)gloss withheld
Aramaicḥyyʾ (OLA80 §9.5)ḤYY (Aramaic Root Atlas; DNWSI 354)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root ḥwy
Amoriteḥjj: jaḥī, ḥajjum, ḥajjatum, ḥajja (Gelb AS 21, 19)ḥwy: ḫay- (Huffmon APNM 191)ḥaya, laḥî (Buck 2019, 327)ḥ-w-y, ḥ-y-y: ia-ḫi-ia, ia-aḫ-wi-DINGIR, la-ḫi-a-nu-um (Ur III)ḥay(ya): ḫa-iu-um, ḫa-ia-nu-um, á-ú-DINGIR (Ur III) (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 260–261)gloss withheld
Punicḥym, N.Pu. ʿym (T 102)N.Pu. ḥwt (T 103)N.Pu. ḥyt (T 104)N.Pu. ḥwʾ, ʿwʾ (T 100)Neo-Punic mḥy (Krahmalkov 275)gloss withheld
Syrian Aramaicḥaye (Payne Smith 139)ḥəyā (LGz. 252)gloss withheld
Mandaic Aramaichia (LGz. 252)
Judaic Aramaicḥayyin (T 102)
CanaaniteEA ḫaya (T 102)gloss withheld
Biblical Aramaicḥay (HALOT 308)*ḥay, pl. ḥayyīn (HALOT 307)ḥyy (HALOT 309)gloss withheld

Arabicḥayy- ‘alive, living’ (BK 1, 523)
Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic ḥyw (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 88)ḥyḥyyḥywtDhofari ḥyḥytḥyw (Al-Jallad 2026, 79)gloss withheld

Epigraphic South ArabianSab ḥyy (Biella 173)yḥw, tḥwḥwy (Biella 168–169)Sab ḥyw, yḥywn (SD 74)gloss withheld

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.