Proto-Semitic root
*yamm-
‘sea’
di Mino’s gloss: sea; lake
Record 724 ↗ · SED semet 715 · Basis: SED
In Linear A1 entry
Reflexes13 languages
East Semitic1
- EblaiticPI-mu, PI-mu-um (Kogan 2011, 191)
Northwest Semitic11
- Ugariticym (Kogan 2015, ch. 4 §3.2 no. 14)
- Phoenicianym (Krahmalkov 209)gloss withheld
- Hebrewyām (Kogan 2015, ch. 4 §3.2 no. 14)
- Aramaicyāma, yammā (OLA80 §23.5, 63.5)gloss withheld
- Amoritejammum (Gelb AS 21, 21)yamm: a-bi-ia-ma, ma-di-ia-ma, ia-mi-i-la (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 372)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicyamā 'the seaa lake' (Payne Smith 193)
- Punicym ‘sea’Anderson–Moser 2024 root ym
- Judaic Aramaicyamaʾ (T 126)
- Mandaic Aramaicyamaʾ (T 126)
- Emaria-a-mi /yammu/ (Pentiuc 2001, 86)gloss withheld
- Biblical Aramaic*yam (HALOT 413–414)gloss withheld
Arabic1
- Arabicyamm-
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.