Proto-Semitic root
*ʾayy-
‘which?’ 1, ‘where?’ 2, ‘how?’ 3
di Mino’s gloss: which?, where?, how?
Record K0567 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor
In Linear A2 entries
Notes
Reflexes19 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadianayyu 1ay(y)akam 2 (HALOT 38)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root ʾayy
- Eblaitica, a-sa-ma /ʾayy/ 2/ʾayya/ 2: names a-a-ne(NE)-àr(ḪAR), a-a-bar-ru₁₂ (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 58–59)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic7
- Ugariticiy, ay 2 (HALOT 37)ỉk 3 (DULAT 41)gloss withheld
- Hebrewʾayye, meʾayin 2 (LGz. 51)ʾêk 3 (HALOT 39)ʾêpō 2 (HALOT 43)ʔē 2ʔē ze 1 (LGz. 49)gloss withheld
- Aramaicʾe, ʾayye 2 (LGz. 51)OAram. ʾyk 3 (DNWSI 45)ʔēḵā 2 (LGz. 49)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicʾay-kā 2 (LGz. 51)ʔaynā 1 (LGz. 49)gloss withheld
- Amoriteʾajja, ʾajjan, ʾajji, ʾijja 2 (Gelb AS 21, 13)ʾayya 2: a-a-, a-a-a-bu-ú, a-a-ḫa-am-mu-úʾayyan 2: a-an-a-ba-al, a-an-li-imʾiyya 2: i-a-a-ab-DINGIR (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 59)gloss withheld
- Phoenicianʾy 2 (B 265)gloss withheld
- Punicʾy 2, in the name ʾybʿl (Krahmalkov 46)gloss withheld
Arabic1
- Arabicʾayyu 1 (HALOT 38)
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South Arabianʾy 1 (HALOT 37; Sabaweb lemma 7542)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian8
- Geezʾay 1ʾefō 2 (HALOT 43)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root ʾayy
- Tigreʾaya, ʾəttäya, ʾatäy 2 (LGz. 51)ʾafō 2 (WTS 388 apud HALOT 43)ʔayi 1 (LGz. 49)gloss withheld
- Tigrinyaʾay in ʾabäy, ʾayti 2 (LGz. 51)ʔayyän, ʔayyänay (LGz. 49)gloss withheld
- Amharicyät 2 (LGz. 51)gloss withheld
- Argobbayed 2 (LGz. 51)gloss withheld
- Gurageet 2 (LGz. 51)e 2 (LGz. 49)gloss withheld
- Mehriey (LGz. 49)
- Harariāy 1 (LGz. 49)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.