Proto-Semitic root
*dim-
‘tower’ 1, ‘borough’ 2
di Mino’s gloss: tower; district
Record 656 ↗ · SED semet 642 · Basis: SED
In Linear A2 entries
Notes
Kogan 2025, 4, after Naumkin et al. 2016, 65, relates Akk. dīmtu to Yemeni Arabic daymah ‘cottage, small house’, Mehri dēmēt ‘warehouse (for wood); byre, cow-house, pen’ and Soqotri díme ‘sheep pen’; the comparison implies a long vowel (dīmtu), as Sargonic construct dīmti (not dimat) confirms.
Reflexes6 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadiandim-atu 1dīmtu, dāmtu (AHw. 170, CAD D 144, SAD 2 31 apud Kogan 2025, 4)gloss withheld
- Eblaitic/dimat/ 1: name ti-ma-ti (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 147)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic1
- Ugariticdm-t 2
Arabic1
- Modern ArabicYemeni daymah (Piamenta 163) (Behnstedt 399–400) (apud Kogan 2025, 4)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian2
- Mehridēmēt (ML 75 apud Kogan 2025, 4)gloss withheld
- Soqotridíme (Naumkin et al. 2014, 528 apud Kogan 2025, 4)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.