# \*yarVʾ- 'to fear, be afraid, revere' 1, 'reverence, awe (abstract noun)' 2

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

- Author's gloss: to fear, revere; awe
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/y/S17_to_fear_be_afraid_revere_1_reverence_awe_abstrac.md

## In Linear A

- [I-NA-JA-RE-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-JA-RE-TA/index.md>) (hinna yarēʾat-\[…\]): behold, she who reveres… (broken)

## Notes

Verb and abstract noun yirʾāt- (fem. -āt) attested in Ugaritic and Hebrew; the Arabic comparison is debated (Lane 2933).

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: yrʾ (DULAT 962); yrʾat; trgm yrʾ (KTU 1.3 III 32) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: yārēʾ (יָרֵא) (HALOT 432); yirʾā (יִרְאָה) (HALOT 433); yirʾat YHWH (Prov 1:7, Ps 111:10); nōrāʾ (Deut 10:17) (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: yrʔ (HALOT 1671, Greenfield 1958: 226‒228 apud SEDonline 311) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: /y-r-ʾ/ 1: name ia-ra-a-nu (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 352) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: Cf. istawraʾa (Lane 2933); cf. waʾara (HALOT 432) (gloss withheld)

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