Proto-Semitic root
*(ʾi-)nVš-
‘man’
di Mino’s gloss: man, human being; people
Record 4 ↗ · SED semet 4 · Basis: SED
In Linear A1 entry
Notes
Mehri ʔans, ʔǝnsáy, ʔǝnsáyyǝt / ʔǝnsōy, ʔǝnsáytǝn (JM 6), Jibbali ʔɛnsí / ʔɛnsɔ́ʔ (JJ 4) and Harari insi (LHar 29) are Arabic loans.
Reflexes15 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadiannišū from OAkk. on, Akkadogram in Hitt. (CAD N/2 283; AHw 796)gloss withheld
- Eblaiticna-se₁₁, a Semitic logogram inherited with the scriptgloss withheldARET XI 1 v. VIII 9 // 2 v. VII 17 · Fronzaroli 1995, 54 n. 16
Northwest Semitic8
- Mandaic Aramaicʔanaša, naša (DM 24)gloss withheld
- Ugariticʔinš, ʔinšt (DULAT 81), nšm (DULAT 640)gloss withheld
- Biblical Aramaicʔä̆nāš ‘people’ (BDB 1081)
- Modern Aramaicnâshâ ‘man’ (Maclean 16)
- Hebrewʔä̆nōš (HALOT 70), pB. ʔä̆nōš (Ja 82)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaicʔä̆nāš, ʔīnšā, ʔēnāš, ʔēnāšā, ʔīnīš, ʔä̆naš (Ja 53), ʔĕnāš (DJPA 66b apud CAL)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicʔanāšā ‘man, person’ (Brock 31)
- AramaicSamal, DA, OffAr, OAram, Palm, Nab, Hatra ʔnš (HJ 84)Sam ʔnš (Tal 52)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicʔins-ān- ‘Man’ (BK 1, 61), ʔins- ‘human kind, men’ (BK 1, 61), nās- ‘coll. men, people’ (BK 2, 1366)
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic ʾns (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 45)ns (Al-Jallad 2026, 8)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSab. ʔns1 (SD 6; Sabaweb lemma 1430)Min. ʔns1 (LM 6)Qat. ʔns1 (Ricks 13)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian2
- Soqotriʔinsíyye (LS 68)gloss withheld
- Tigreʔǝnās (LH 371)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.