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Root ʾ-w-r

Imperial Aramaic Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Both languages share identical consonants at this root —ʾ-w-rʾ-w-r. No Proto-Semitic sound change separates them here.

Imperial Aramaic

arc
root: ʾ-w-r
  • אוֹרַחʾŏraḥnoun tg. Onk. Gen 3:24
    road, path, way
  • אורהיname
    Edessa
  • אורחאnoun tg. Jer. Gen 21:33
    road, way, path
  • אוריאnoun tg. Onk. Exod 28:30
    stall (compartment in stable)
  • אורכאnoun tg. Onk. Gen 6:15
    length
  • אורדעאnoun
    frog
  • אוֹרַיְתָאʾōrayṯāname tg. Onk. Gen 49:11
    Torah
  • אורשלם’ūrišlemname
    Jerusalem

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

aii
root: ʾ-w-r
  • ܐܘܿܪōrname
    Ur (An ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq; modern Tell el-Muqayyar)
  • ܐܹܘܪܘܿēwrōnoun
    euro (currency unit of the European Monetary Union)
  • ܐܘܿܪܗܵܝōrhāyname
    Edessa (a city in southeastern Turkey)
  • ܐܘܿܪܘܿܣōrōsname
    Russia (a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia)
  • ܐܘܼܪܙܵܐurzānoun
    guy, youth, young man
  • ܐܘܼܪܡܝܼurmīname
    Urmia, Urmi, or Orumiah (a region and city in modern-day northwest Iran)
  • ܐܘܼܪܕܥܵܐurdˁānoun
    frog
  • ܐܹܘܪܘܿܦܹܐēwrōpēname
    Europe (a continent located west of Asia and north of Africa)
Canonical root family: ʾ-w-r