Proto-Semitic root
*nśʾ-
‘to lift, carry, bear’ 1, ‘chief, prince (one lifted up)’ 2, ‘to take away, forgive’ 3
di Mino’s gloss: to lift, carry; prince, chief
Record S38 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor
In Linear A2 entries
Notes
The noun ‘rising clouds, mist’ is 3637.
Reflexes20 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadiannašû (CAD N/2 97)gloss withheld
- Eblaiticna-si-NI /nāśiʔ(i/u)/, in a-na-a na-si-NI (VE 723; Krebernik 1983, 27–28)ʔa₅-si, ʔa₅-su, i-si /n-S-ʾ/ 1na-si-i a-na-a /nāSiʾ/ 2 (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 106)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic8
- Ugariticnšʾ (DULAT 639)ynšʾ (KTU 1.2 iv 16)nšʾ ʿngloss withheld
- Biblical Aramaicn-ś-ʾ ‘take’ (BDB 1103)
- Judaic Aramaicnsʾ (HALOT 724)
- Aramaicnsʾ (HALOT 724)
- Canaanitenašśāyinašši (HALOT 724)
- Phoeniciannšʾ (HALOT 727)yšʾ (T 221)gloss withheld
- Amoritenśʾ: jaśśiʾ, naśūʾum (Gelb AS 21, 27)naśīʾu, nāśiʾ, yaśśiʾ (Buck 2019, 330)n-S-ʾ 1: ia-áš-si-ia-an, i-si-ᵈda-gan, ià-ši-li-im (Ur III)nāSiʾ 2: ḫa-mu-la-na-sí, ia-aḫ-wi-na-si, ia-du-ur-na-si (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 106)gloss withheld
- Punicnšʾ, nʾšʾ (T 222)gloss withheld
Arabic1
- Arabicnašaʾa (Lane 2790) (HALOT 724)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSab ns2ʾ (SD 98, 99; Sabaweb lemmas 6235, 4675)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian8
- Geeznašʾa (HALOT 724)
- Tigrenasʾa (HALOT 724)
- Amharicnašā (HALOT 724)
- Soqotrimiśiʾoḥ (LGz. 404)gloss withheld
- Tigrinyanäsʾe (LGz. 404)
- Argobbanässa (LGz. 404)
- Hararinäsaʾa (LGz. 404)gloss withheld
- Guragenässa (LGz. 404)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.