# \*ʾVrVš- 'ask' 1, 'desire, wish' 2

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

- Author's gloss: to ask, request; desire, wish
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%CA%BE/K0596_ask_1_desire_wish_2.md

## In Linear A

- [A-RE-SA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RE-SA-NA/index.md>) (ʾAriš-ān): 'The Requested One'—votive birth-name from √ʾ-r-š "to request, desire" + hypocoristic -ān; the child asked of the goddess, the name a receipt

## Notes

HALOT 91 sets Hebrew ʾrś 'to betroth' (Middle Hebrew ʾrs pi., Jewish Aramaic ʾrs) with Akkadian ērišu 'bridegroom' and erēšu 'to ask', in an entry apart from *ʾrš (ʾărešet); its ś and the Aramaic s do not answer the š of ʾărešet. Hajouz 2013, 72 reads VE 234 ì-rí-sa-tum (= Sum. al-du₁₁-ga) as /ʾirišatum/ 'wish', where Sanmartín GlOS 1, 41 has /ʾiriSt, ʾirSat/.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: erēšu 1; mērešu 2 (CAD M/2 26) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ʾrš]
- Eblaitic: ì-rí-sa-tum /ʾiriSt, ʾirSat/ 2 (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 41) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Punic: ʾrš 'ask' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ʾrš]
- Ugaritic: ʾrš; iršt /ʾirištu/? (UVST 110) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ʾrš]
- Phoenician: ʾrš (T 33) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: ʾărešet 2 (Ps 21:3; HALOT 91) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: ʾirśu/ʾiriśu, ʾarišu (Buck 2019, 324); ʾ-r-S 2: cf. ḫa-ra-šum (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 41) (gloss withheld)

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