Proto-Semitic root

*ʾišs-

‘fire’

di Mino’s gloss: fire

Record 812 ↗ · SED semet 819 · Basis: SED

In Linear A1 entry

I-SIʾiššêfire offering(s)SpeculativeSemitic2

Reflexes17 languages

East Semitic2

Akkadianʔišatu (CAD I/J 227)išum (HALOT 92)
Eblaiticì-sa-tù (Kogan 2011, 194; VE 783; Krebernik 1983, 30)DN = ᵈGIBIL (VE 783; Krebernik 1983, 30), read ᵈIZI = ì-sa-tù, Sumerian Gibil (Antalík 1998, 43)

Northwest Semitic7

Mandaic Aramaicʕs̃tʔ
Ugariticʔišt (DULAT 115)
Phoenicianʾš (Krahmalkov 76)gloss withheld
Hebrewʔeš (HALOT 92)
Aramaic(Emp) ʔsh, (Bibl) ʔešs-, (Palest) ʔišsat-ʾšgloss withheld
Syrian Aramaicʾeššātā (HALOT 92)
Punicʾš ‘fire’Anderson–Moser 2024 root ʾš

Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian8

Tigreʔǝsat (Kogan 2015, ch. 7 §2.2 no. 28)
Geezʔǝsāt (Kogan 2015, ch. 1 §1.3 no. 28)
Amharicǝsat (Kogan 2015, ch. 7 §2.2 no. 28)
Gurageəsat (LGz. 44)
Gafatəsatä (LGz. 44)
Harariəsāt, isāt (LGz. 44)
Argobbaəsad (LGz. 44)
Tigrinyaʔǝsat (Kogan 2015, ch. 7 §2.2 no. 28)

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

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