# \*ḥšš 'dry grass, fodder; to mow'

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: hay, dry grass, fodder
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/add28e9473c07931be80fd0b364181739fc5519a/wiki/semitic-roots/%E1%B8%A5/3865_dry_grass_fodder_to_mow.md

## In Linear A

- [A-SE-SI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SE-SI-NA/index.md>) (ḥašīšin): of dry grass, of hay (genitive with nunation; ʾugār ḥašīšin 'the hay meadow', the field's name)

## 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.

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

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

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ḥašīš (Lane 573); ḥašša (HALOT 363) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Geez: ḥašawa (HALOT 363, after Leslau 22)

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