Proto-Semitic root
*tVʾVm-
‘twin’
di Mino’s gloss: twin; to bear twins
Record 2914 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor
In Linear A1 entry
Notes
HALOT 1694 also cites CPArm. twmʔ. Phoenician TʔM is a personal name only (Krahmalkov 2000, 487).
Reflexes8 languages
East Semitic1
- Akkadiantū(ʔ)mu(m) (HALOT 1694; AHw 1364)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic6
- Hebrewtōʔām ‘twin’ (BDB 1060)tāʔam ‘be double, bear twins’ (BDB 1060)
- Syrian Aramaictāʔmā (HALOT 1694; Payne Smith 603)gloss withheld
- Mandaic Aramaictauma (HALOT 1694; MD 478)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaictəyōmā (HALOT 1694)
- Amoritetaʾm, tuʾam: ta-mi, tu-ma-nu-um, tu-a-ma-tum (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 290)gloss withheld
- Phoeniciantʾm, in the personal name TʾM (B 427)gloss withheld
Arabic1
- Arabictauʔam (HALOT 1694)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.