# \*(ʾi-)nVš- 'man'

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

- Author's gloss: man, human being; people
- SED semet 4
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/n/4_man.md

## In Linear A

- [E-NA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/E-NA-SI/index.md>) (ʾenāš): men, people (section heading); rival copper, bronze

## Notes

Mehri ʔans, ʔǝnsáy, ʔǝnsáyyǝt / ʔǝnsōy, ʔǝnsáytǝn (JM 6), Jibbali ʔɛnsí / ʔɛnsɔ́ʔ (JJ 4) and Harari insi (LHar 29) are Arabic loans.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: nišū from OAkk. on, Akkadogram in Hitt. (CAD N/2 283; AHw 796) (gloss withheld)
- Eblaitic: na-se₁₁, a Semitic logogram inherited with the script (gloss withheld) [ARET XI 1 v. VIII 9 // 2 v. VII 17; Fronzaroli 1995, 54 n. 16]

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Mandaic Aramaic: ʔanaša, naša (DM 24) (gloss withheld)
- Ugaritic: ʔinš, ʔinšt (DULAT 81), nšm (DULAT 640) (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: ʔä̆nāš 'people' (BDB 1081)
- Modern Aramaic: nâshâ 'man' (Maclean 16)
- Hebrew: ʔä̆nōš (HALOT 70), pB. ʔä̆nōš (Ja 82) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: ʔä̆nāš, ʔīnšā, ʔēnāš, ʔēnāšā, ʔīnīš, ʔä̆naš (Ja 53), ʔĕnāš (DJPA 66b apud CAL) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: ʔanāšā 'man, person' (Brock 31)
- Aramaic: Samal, DA, OffAr, OAram, Palm, Nab, Hatra ʔnš (HJ 84); Sam ʔnš (Tal 52) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ʔins-ān- 'Man' (BK 1, 61), ʔins- 'human kind, men' (BK 1, 61), nās- 'coll. men, people' (BK 2, 1366)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic ʾns (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 45); ns (Al-Jallad 2026, 8) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab. ʔns1 (SD 6; Sabaweb lemma 1430); Min. ʔns1 (LM 6); Qat. ʔns1 (Ricks 13) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Soqotri: ʔinsíyye (LS 68) (gloss withheld)
- Tigre: ʔǝnās (LH 371) (gloss withheld)

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