Proto-Semitic root

*ʾsy

‘physician’ 1, ‘to treat, heal’ 2

di Mino’s gloss: physician, healer; to heal

In Linear A2 entries

A-SEʾāsēphysician, healerCandidateSemitic43D A-SE-JAĀsīyaAsīya, personal name, '(DN is) my physician'SpeculativeSemitic1

Notes

A culture word from Sumerian azu ‘physician’ (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 47; CAD A/2 344). HALOT 73 reads the Hebrew PN ʾĀsāʾ, Asa, as ‘God is (my) physician’ with Stamm, beside Noth’s short form of ʾĀsāp and Löw’s Akkadian asu ‘myrtle’.

Reflexes6 languages

East Semitic1

Akkadianasû 1 (CAD A/2 344)gloss withheld

Northwest Semitic3

AmoriteʔāSiy 1: name ì-lí-a-si-ia (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 47)gloss withheld
AramaicOffAr., Nab., Palm. ʾsy 1JAr. ʾsy D 2 (DNWSI 88)gloss withheld
Syrian Aramaicʔsyʔ 1 (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 47)gloss withheld

Arabic1

Arabicʔāsin 1ʔasā (ʔsw, ʔsy) 2 (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 47)gloss withheld

Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian1

Geezasāwi 1ʔasawa 2 (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 47)gloss withheld

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.