# \*ʕamm- 'relative' 1, 'uncle' 2, 'ancestor' 3

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

- Author's gloss: paternal kinsman, father's brother; ancestor
- SED semet 26
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%CA%BF/44_relative_1_uncle_2_ancestor_3.md

## In Linear A

- [\*306+MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*306~2BMI/index.md>) (ʿAmmī): personal name: 'my kinsman / my (paternal) uncle'
- [A-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA/index.md>) (ʿamma): people, kinfolk—social/kinship term
- [A-MA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA-JA/index.md>) (ʿAmmaya): (Little) kinsman (personal name, hypocoristic); rival ʾAmaya 'maidservant'
- [A-MA-WA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA-WA-SI/index.md>) (ʿAmma-wāṣiʾ): the Kinsman who comes forth (El epithet); rival 'Strong One'
- [A-MI-DA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MI-DA-U/index.md>) (ʿAmmī-dāʿ(u)): My kinsman knows (sentence name)

## Notes

HALOT 837 files ʿam 'paternal uncle; kin; people' as one lemma; 'people, nation' is S10.

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Phoenician: ʿm (Krahmalkov 376–377) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: ʕam 1
- Amorite: ʿammum (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 Aramaic: ʕamtā 'paternal aunt' (Payne Smith 419)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ʕamm- 2 (Lane 2149)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic ʿm (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 53); ʿmt (Al-Jallad 2026, 15) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab ʿm, pl. ʾʿmm (SD 16; Biella 371; Sabaweb lemma 3735) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: ʔom 3
- Harsusi: ʔom 3
- Tigre: ˁammät (WTS 455 apud SEDonline 513) (gloss withheld)
- Jibbali: aʕĩt (JL 19 apud SEDonline 513); ʕom (JL 19 apud SEDonline 513) (gloss withheld)

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