Proto-Semitic root
*gd
‘to be lucky, fortunate; luck, fortune’
di Mino’s gloss: luck, fortune; Fortune as a god
Record 3243 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor
In Linear A1 entry
Notes
PWS *gd ‘to be good, lucky, excellent’, a biconsonantal element (Kogan 2015: 33, 191; DRS 99‒100, 105‒106 apud SEDonline 40). SEDonline 40 also sets here Arb. ǯwd ‘to be good, approvable, excellent’ (Lane 481) and Sod. gud ‘wonderful, marvelous, splendid’ (EDG 261).
Reflexes13 languages
East Semitic1
- Eblaitic/g-d-d, g-y-d/: name i-gi-da-ga-mu/gadd, gayd, gād/: names ga-da(-), ga-du-um, ga-ti/gidd, giyd, gīd/: names gi-dum, gi-da-na-im, ki-da-NI/gudd, guwd, gūd/: names gú-du, gú-da, gu₄-du-nu/gadduwat, gayduwat, gāduwat/: names ga-du-wa-ad, ga-du-wa-du (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 175)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic8
- Hebrewgad (HALOT 176 apud SEDonline 40)gloss withheld
- Judaic AramaicJPA gaddā (DJPA 121 apud SEDonline 40)gloss withheld
- AramaicSam. gd (DSA 128 apud SEDonline 40)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicgaddā (LSyr. 104, SL 204 apud SEDonline 40)gloss withheld
- Mandaic Aramaicgada (MD 73)gloss withheld
- Emarga-ad-dá, ga₁₄-ad-da, gad-dá /gaddu/ (Pentiuc 2001, 50)gadid: names ga-di-du/di (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 175)gloss withheld
- Amoriteg-d-d, g-y-d: ia-gi-id-li-imgadd, gayd, gād: ga-da-nimgidd, giyd, gīd: gi-da-angudd, guwd, gūd: gu-ú-da (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 175)gloss withheld
- Punicgd, in gdnʿm, gdʿštrt, mlqrtgd (Krahmalkov 136)gloss withheld
Arabic1
- Arabicǯadd- (Lane 385 apud SEDonline 40)ǯdd (Lane 384 apud SEDonline 40)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian3
- Tigregäd (WTS 602 apud SEDonline 40)gloss withheld
- Tigrinyagäddi (TED 2356 apud SEDonline 40)gloss withheld
- Amharicgädd (AED 2034 apud SEDonline 40)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.