# \*ʾsy 'physician' 1, 'to treat, heal' 2

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

- Author's gloss: physician, healer; to heal
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/add28e9473c07931be80fd0b364181739fc5519a/wiki/semitic-roots/%CA%BE/4409_physician_1_to_treat_heal_2.md

## In Linear A

- [A-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SE/index.md>) (ʾāsē): physician, healer
- [A-SE-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SE-JA/index.md>) (Āsīya): Asīya, personal name, '(DN is) my physician'

## 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'.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: asû 1 (CAD A/2 344) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Amorite: ʔāSiy 1: name ì-lí-a-si-ia (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 47) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: OffAr., Nab., Palm. ʾsy 1; JAr. ʾsy D 2 (DNWSI 88) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: ʔsyʔ 1 (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 47) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ʔāsin 1; ʔasā (ʔsw, ʔsy) 2 (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 47) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Geez: asāwi 1; ʔasawa 2 (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 47) (gloss withheld)

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