Proto-Semitic root
*rVʕVy- 1, *rāʕ- 2
‘pasture, guard livestock, herd, graze (trans.)’ (v.) 1, ‘herdsman’ 2
di Mino’s gloss: to pasture, graze, tend; shepherd, herdsman
Record 454 ↗ · SED semet 423 · Basis: SED, edited
In Linear A2 entries
Notes
‘Friend’ and ‘associate with’ are 61 (HALOT 1253, 1262). The noun ‘pasture, herbage’ is 3638.
Reflexes19 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadianreʔû 1
- Eblaiticu₉-šarₓ(NE)-ì /r-ʿ-y/ 1 (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 150)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic9
- Mandaic Aramaicraa 1
- Ugariticrʕy 2
- Phoenicianrʕ 1
- Hebrewrʕy 1, rōʕǟ 2
- Syrian Aramaicrǝʕā 1
- AramaicRʿY (Aramaic Root Atlas; Qumran 224 apud CAL)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root rʿy
- Punicrʿ ‘shepherd’Anderson–Moser 2024 root rʿy
- Judaic Aramaicrəʿā, rāʿăyā, rāʿītā (HALOT 1258)
- Amoriterʿj: jarʿī (Gelb AS 21, 29)r-ʿ-y: cf. ya-ri-a-du, ia-ar-ḫi-DINGIR (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 150)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicrʕy [-a-] 1, rāʕ- 2
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic rʿy (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 114)rʿyt 1Hismaic rʿy 1Dadanitic rʿy 2 (Al-Jallad 2026, 119)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South Arabianrʕy 1 (Sabaweb lemma 7187)rʕy 2 (SD 113)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian5
- Mehrirō 1, rēʕi 2
- Soqotrireʕe 1
- Tigreräʕa 1
- Geezrǝʕya 1
- Jibbaliraʕé 1
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.