# \*mw/yt 'to die'

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

- Author's gloss: to die; death, the dead
- SED semet 967
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/m/945_to_die.md

## In Linear A

- [JA-MA-U-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-MA-U-TI/index.md>) (Yamwuti): personal name, Amorite type (yaqtul of √m-w-t)
- [MI-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MI-TU/index.md>) (mītu): personal name, 'dead one'

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: mâtu (Ass muātu) OAkk on [CAD M/1 421], [AHw 634]

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Canaanite: AMARNA ti-mi-tu-na-nu (impf.caus.suff.) [HJ 605], AMM ymtn (impf.3 pl.m.) [ibid.] (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: mt, in hmt (Krahmalkov 319) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: mt (T 204); Neo-Punic mtʿ (Krahmalkov 319) (gloss withheld)
- Mandaic Aramaic: MUT [DM 263]
- Ugaritic: mt [Aist 197]
- Hebrew: mwt (HALOT 562); myt (DNWSI 623) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: mwt, myt [Ja 780]; [DJPA 297a apud CAL]
- Syrian Aramaic: mīt [Brock 378]
- Aramaic: SAM OLD OFF NAB PLM HTR mwt/myt [HJ 605-6]
- Biblical Aramaic: mōt 'death' (BDB 1099)
- Amorite: mwt: jamūt (Gelb AS 21, 26) (gloss withheld)
- Emar: mi-ti /mītī/ (Pentiuc 2001, 125–126) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: mwt [BK 2 1165]
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic myt (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 101); mt; ʾmt (Al-Jallad 2026, 96) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: SAB mwt [SD 89; Sabaweb lemma 2281]; Sab myt (Biella 274) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: mōt [JM 275]
- Soqotri: mī [LS 237]. (gloss withheld)
- Harsusi: mōt
- Tigre: motä [LH 134]
- East Ethiopic: SEL mōtä, WOL motä, ZWY mūtä [LGur 435]
- Harari: mōta [LHar 114]
- Geez: mōta (Kogan 2015, ch. 7 §2.2 no. 17)
- Gurage: SOD motä, GYE mōtä, CHA EZHA MUH MAS GOG mʷätä, END ENN mōdä [LGur 435]
- Jibbali: emyét [JJ 176]; mít [ibid.] (gloss withheld)
- Amharic: motä [K 304]
- Tigrinya: motä [Bass 100]
- Argobba: moda (SED I 304)

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Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.