# \*dim- 'tower' 1, 'borough' 2

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

- Author's gloss: tower; district
- SED semet 642
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/d/656_tower_1_borough_2.md

## In Linear A

- [DA-MA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-MA-TE/index.md>) (damat): the Tower; the unprefixed base of I-DA-MA-TE
- [I-DA-MA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-MA-TE/index.md>) (ʾidmat): the Tower, a sacred title (DA-MA-TE with prothetic I-)

## 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.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: dim-atu 1; dīmtu, 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)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: dm-t 2

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Modern Arabic: Yemeni daymah (Piamenta 163) (Behnstedt 399–400) (apud Kogan 2025, 4) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: dēmēt (ML 75 apud Kogan 2025, 4) (gloss withheld)
- Soqotri: díme (Naumkin et al. 2014, 528 apud Kogan 2025, 4) (gloss withheld)

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