Proto-Semitic root

ṣyd ~ zwd

‘provisions for a journey; to provision’

di Mino’s gloss: provisions for a journey

In Linear A4 entries

MA-SI-DUmaṣīduprovisions (list heading)SpeculativeSemitic1 SE-*305ṣēdāprovisions (section heading)SpeculativeSemitic1 SE-DEṣēdprovision of (construct), before *21F-*118 ḥiṭṭa 'wheat'SpeculativeSemitic1 SI-DA-TEṣēdatprovisions (cf. Heb. ṣêdâ, travelling provision)SpeculativeSemitic1

Notes

HALOT 1020–1021 sets Aram., Mnd. and Arb. zwd, zād beside Hbr. ṣyd (hitp.) and ṣêdâ, Akk. ṣuddû and ṣidītu, Ug. mṣd ‘food’, with z for ṣ: Hebrew, Akkadian and Ugaritic keep ṣ, Aramaic and Arabic write z. Cf. 847 *ṣVwad- ‘hunt’. Arabic mizwad ‘a bag … for travelling-provisions’ (Lane 1268) and Syriac mzīdā ‘traveller’s provision-bag’ (Payne Smith 262) are two formations; Geez mazwad ‘bag’ is from the Arabic (LGz. 379).

Reflexes5 languages

East Semitic1

Akkadianṣidītu (CAD Ṣ 172)ṣuddû (CAD Ṣ 228)gloss withheld

Northwest Semitic2

HebrewII ṣayidṣêdâ (HALOT 1020–1021)gloss withheld
Syrian Aramaiczwādā ‘provisions for a journey, viaticum’ (Payne Smith 112)zawwed ‘supply with provisions, equip’ (Payne Smith 112)

Arabic2

Arabiczād ‘provisions, a stock of provisions, for travelling’ (Lane 1267)zawwada ‘he furnished him with, or gave him, provisions’ (Lane 1267)
Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic mzdtzwd (D) (Al-Jallad 2026, 174)gloss withheld

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