Proto-Semitic root

*tam(V)r-

‘palm tree’

di Mino’s gloss: date palm, date

Record 737 ↗ · SED semet 731 · Basis: SED

In Linear A4 entries

TAMIRtamirproposed Semitic lexical name of the PALM/TREE signCandidateSemitic4 TI-MA-RU-WI-TETīmar-luwwītTimar the Levite (f.), priestess (woman's name and title)SpeculativeSemitic1 TO-MA-ROTōmarpersonal name, 'palm'CandidateSemitic1 TO-MI-REtōmirdate palm, its produceCandidateSemitic1

Notes

Geez tamr ‘date, date palm’ and Tigre tamar (HALOT 1756) are probably from Arabic tamr ‘dates’ (CDG 576). Kogan lists Geez tamr, tamart (CDG 576) among the reflexes (Kogan 2015, ch. 2 §4.2 no. 61).

Reflexes14 languages

Northwest Semitic9

Phoeniciantmr (Krahmalkov 494)tmr (T 342)gloss withheld
Hebrewtāmār (HALOT 1757)gloss withheld
Judaic Aramaictamrā, tumrā (HALOT 1756)tamrā (Jastrow 1679)gloss withheld
Syrian Aramaictᵉmartā (HALOT 1756)
Mandaic Aramaictumarta (HALOT 1756)
Ugaritic[ta]-ma-ru (HALOT 1756)
Amoritetamar: qí-iš-ti-ᵈta-ma-ru (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 298)gloss withheld
Punictmr (Krahmalkov 494)gloss withheld
Aramaictmrntmry (DNWSI 1222)gloss withheld

Arabic1

Arabictamr-at-

Epigraphic South Arabian1

Epigraphic South ArabianSab. tmr (HALOT 1756; Sabaweb lemma 3074)ʾtmr (Sabaweb lemma 8545)gloss withheld

Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian3

Soqotritimreh (LGz. 576)
Mehritōmər (Kogan 2011, 204)gloss withheld
Jibbalitəmrɛ́t (Kogan 2011, 204)gloss withheld

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.