Proto-Semitic root
*mw/yt
‘to die’
di Mino’s gloss: to die; death, the dead
Record 945 ↗ · SED semet 967 · Basis: SED
In Linear A2 entries
Reflexes28 languages
East Semitic1
- Akkadianmâtu (Ass muātu) OAkk on [CAD M/1 421], [AHw 634]
Northwest Semitic12
- CanaaniteAMARNA ti-mi-tu-na-nu (impf.caus.suff.) [HJ 605], AMM ymtn (impf.3 pl.m.) [ibid.]gloss withheld
- Phoenicianmt, in hmt (Krahmalkov 319)gloss withheld
- Punicmt (T 204)Neo-Punic mtʿ (Krahmalkov 319)gloss withheld
- Mandaic AramaicMUT [DM 263]
- Ugariticmt [Aist 197]
- Hebrewmwt (HALOT 562)myt (DNWSI 623)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaicmwt, myt [Ja 780][DJPA 297a apud CAL]
- Syrian Aramaicmīt [Brock 378]
- AramaicSAM OLD OFF NAB PLM HTR mwt/myt [HJ 605-6]
- Biblical Aramaicmōt ‘death’ (BDB 1099)
- Amoritemwt: jamūt (Gelb AS 21, 26)gloss withheld
- Emarmi-ti /mītī/ (Pentiuc 2001, 125–126)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicmwt [BK 2 1165]
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic myt (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 101)mtʾmt (Al-Jallad 2026, 96)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSAB mwt [SD 89; Sabaweb lemma 2281]Sab myt (Biella 274)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian12
- Mehrimōt [JM 275]
- Soqotrimī [LS 237].gloss withheld
- Harsusimōt
- Tigremotä [LH 134]
- East EthiopicSEL mōtä, WOL motä, ZWY mūtä [LGur 435]
- Hararimōta [LHar 114]
- Geezmōta (Kogan 2015, ch. 7 §2.2 no. 17)
- GurageSOD motä, GYE mōtä, CHA EZHA MUH MAS GOG mʷätä, END ENN mōdä [LGur 435]
- Jibbaliemyét [JJ 176]mít [ibid.]gloss withheld
- Amharicmotä [K 304]
- Tigrinyamotä [Bass 100]
- Argobbamoda (SED I 304)
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.