Proto-Semitic root
*ʕamm-
‘relative’ 1, ‘uncle’ 2, ‘ancestor’ 3
di Mino’s gloss: paternal kinsman, father's brother; ancestor
Record 44 ↗ · SED semet 26 · Basis: SED
In Linear A5 entries
*306+MIʿAmmīpersonal name: 'my kinsman / my (paternal) uncle'SpeculativeSemitic1A-MAʿammapeople, kinfolk—social/kinship termCandidateSemitic3A-MA-JAʿAmmaya(Little) kinsman (personal name, hypocoristic)SpeculativeSemitic1A-MA-WA-SIʿAmma-wāṣiʾthe Kinsman who comes forth (El epithet)CandidateSemitic13DA-MI-DA-UʿAmmī-dāʿ(u)My kinsman knows (sentence name)CandidateSemitic1
Notes
HALOT 837 files ʿam ‘paternal uncle; kin; people’ as one lemma; ‘people, nation’ is S10.
Reflexes11 languages
Northwest Semitic4
- Phoenicianʿm (Krahmalkov 376–377)gloss withheld
- Hebrewʕam 1
- Amoriteʿammum (Gelb AS 21, 15)ʿammu (Buck 2019, 325)ḫammu: ḫa-am-mu-šu (ARM 26/2, 449: 18f.) (Streck 2000, 92–93)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicʕamtā ‘paternal aunt’ (Payne Smith 419)
Arabic2
- Arabicʕamm- 2 (Lane 2149)
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic ʿm (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 53)ʿmt (Al-Jallad 2026, 15)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSab ʿm, pl. ʾʿmm (SD 16; Biella 371; Sabaweb lemma 3735)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian4
- Mehriʔom 3
- Harsusiʔom 3
- Tigreˁammät (WTS 455 apud SEDonline 513)gloss withheld
- Jibbaliaʕĩt (JL 19 apud SEDonline 513)ʕom (JL 19 apud SEDonline 513)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.