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Root m-w-t

Imperial Aramaic ↔ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Both languages share identical consonants at this root —m-w-t↔ m-w-t. No Proto-Semitic sound change separates them here.

Imperial Aramaic

arc
root: m-w-t
  • מוּתmūṯverb• tg. Onk. Gen 3:4
    masculine singular imperative of מִית (mīṯ)
  • מותאnoun• tg. Onk. Exod 9:3
    death
  • מותבאnoun• tg. Jon. 1 Kgs 10:19
    site, settlement, location
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Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

aii
root: m-w-t
  • ܡܵܐܹܬ݂māˀēṯverb
    to die (to stop living)
  • ܡܝܼܬ݂mīṯnoun
    construct state singular of ܡܝܼܬ݂ܵܐ (mīṯā, “dead”)
  • ܡܝܼܬ݂mīṯadj
    used to refer to someone dead in formal contexts, biographies, gravestones etc.
  • ܡܲܘܬܵܐmawtānoun
    death (the cessation of life and all associated processes)
  • ܡܝܼܬ݂ܵܐmīṯānoun
    dead man, decedent
  • ܡܝܼܬ݂ܵܐmīṯāadj
    dead
  • ܡܝܵܬ݂ܵܐmyāṯānoun
    dying
  • ܡܲܡܝܸܬ݂mamyiṯverb
    to put to death, execute, to cause to die
Canonical root family: m-w-t