Proto-Semitic root

*rtm

‘broom (Retama)’

di Mino’s gloss: broom, a desert shrub

Record 3626 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor

In Linear A1 entry

RI-TA-MARitmāpersonal name, 'broom (bush)'SpeculativeSemitic1

Notes

The desert broom Retama raetam (HALOT 1300). Hebrew has the place name Ritmâ, ‘place of the broom bushes’ (Nu 33:18f; HALOT 1300).

Reflexes3 languages

Northwest Semitic2

Arabic1

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

Linear A Lexicon