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ʾ m t

16 lemmas · 7 languages
hamzatedContains ʾ (glottal stop) in position 1 or 3. Glottal stops assimilate or elide in many inflections, producing irregular surface forms.T Gen.24.48
Themes:defective·2really·2handmaid·2female· أُنْثَى · נְקֵבָה·2slave·2
POS shape:noun·8verb·5adj·1adv·1intj·1

This root is attested across 7 Semitic languages in our index. Each section below shows representative lemmas; attested means a Wiktionary editor explicitly tagged the root, inferredmeans we derived it mechanically from the word's consonantal skeleton.

Etymology treehow this root diverged from Proto-Semitic through the family

*ʾ-m-tProto-Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Ugariticʾammatu𐎀 𐎎 𐎚cubit (unit of length, roughly equal to 1.5 feet or 0.46 meters)
Canaanite
Hebrewאִמֵּתא מ תto authenticate, to verify
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicאמתלאא מ תexcuse
Syriacܐܡܬܐܐ ܡ ܬmaidservant
Arabic
Arabicأَمْتَدِدْء م ت
South Semitic
Ethio-Semitic
Ge'ezአመትአ መ ተhandmaid, female slave
Amharicአመትአ መ ተhandmaid, female slave

Branch structure: Huehnergard (2005), Rubin (2010). The reconstructed Proto-Semitic form is computed on the fly from the cognate set's majority reflex pattern.

Ugaritic

irregular reflexug · 1 lemma
  • ảmtnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    cubit (unit of length, roughly equal to 1.5 feet or 0.46 meters)
    Compare Hebrew אַמָּה (ʾammā).

Imperial Aramaic

arc · 1 lemma

Classical Syriac

syc · 1 lemma
  • ʾamməṯānouninferredWiktionary ↗
    maidservant
    From Proto-Semitic *ʔamat-.

Hebrew

he · 6 lemmas
  • 'imétverbattestedT Gen.24.48Wiktionary ↗
    to authenticate, to verify
  • 'imétverbinferredT Gen.24.48Wiktionary ↗
    defective spelling of אימת
  • amátnouninferredT Gen.24.48Wiktionary ↗
    singular construct state form of אַמָּה (amá)
  • amitíadjinferredT Gen.30.3Wiktionary ↗
    defective spelling of אמיתי
  • be'emétadvinferredT Deut.3.11Wiktionary ↗
    really, in truth
    בְּ־ (b'-, “in”) + אֱמֶת (emét, “truth”)
  • be'emétintjinferredT Deut.3.11Wiktionary ↗
    Really?
    בְּ־ (b'-, “in”) + אֱמֶת (emét, “truth”)

Arabic

ar · 3 lemmas

Ge'ez

gez · 2 lemmas
  • ʾämätnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    handmaid, female slave
    From Proto-Semitic *ʔamat-.
  • ʾəmmatnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    plural of እም (ʾəmm, “mother”)

Amharic

am · 2 lemmas
  • ʾamätnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    handmaid, female slave
    Learned borrowing from Ge'ez አመት (ʾämät).
  • ʾämotnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    bile

Related rootsshare 2 of 3 consonants with ʾ-m-t

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