Proto-Semitic root

*ḥšš

‘dry grass, fodder; to mow’

di Mino’s gloss: hay, dry grass, fodder

In Linear A1 entry

A-SE-SI-NAḥašīšinof dry grass, of hay (genitive with nunation)SpeculativeSemitic1

Notes

HALOT 363 files Hebrew ḥăšaš under *ḥšš with Arabic ḥašša and Ethiopic ḥašawa, and compares Arabic ḥašīš; Klein (s.v. חֲשַׁשׁ) relates ḥăšaš to ḥašīš.

Reflexes3 languages

Northwest Semitic1

Hebrewḥăšaš, Is 5:24, 33:11 (HALOT 363)NH ḥăšîš (Klein s.v. חֲשַׁשׁ)gloss withheld

Arabic1

Arabicḥašīš (Lane 573)ḥašša (HALOT 363)gloss withheld

Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian1

Geezḥašawa (HALOT 363, after Leslau 22)

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