# \*yamm- 'sea'

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

- Author's gloss: sea; lake
- SED semet 715
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/y/724_sea.md

## In Linear A

- [KA-NI-JA-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-NI-JA-MI/index.md>) (qāniy-yammi): Creator of the Sea (El epithet)

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Eblaitic: PI-mu, PI-mu-um (Kogan 2011, 191)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: ym (Kogan 2015, ch. 4 §3.2 no. 14)
- Phoenician: ym (Krahmalkov 209) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: yām (Kogan 2015, ch. 4 §3.2 no. 14)
- Aramaic: yāma, yammā (OLA80 §23.5, 63.5) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: jammum (Gelb AS 21, 21); yamm: a-bi-ia-ma, ma-di-ia-ma, ia-mi-i-la (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 372) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: yamā 'the sea; a lake' (Payne Smith 193)
- Punic: ym 'sea' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ym]
- Judaic Aramaic: yamaʾ (T 126)
- Mandaic Aramaic: yamaʾ (T 126)
- Emar: ia-a-mi /yammu/ (Pentiuc 2001, 86) (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: *yam (HALOT 413–414) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: yamm-

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