ʾ y t
21 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.4.14
Themes:essence·4substance·4including·3personal·3pronoun·3
POS shape:noun·7verb·5prep·4other·1proper noun·1adv·1suffix·1name·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-w-tProto-Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Canaanite
Hebrewאֻיַּתא י ת— to be spelled/spelt
Phoenician𐤀𐤉𐤕𐤀 𐤉 𐤕
Punic𐤀𐤉𐤕𐤍𐤌𐤀 𐤉 𐤕— }}
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicאִיתא י ת— there is, there are
Syriacܐܝܬܐ ܝ ܬ— there is/are
Assyrian NAܐܝܼܬ݂ܐ ܝ ܬ— there is/are
South Semitic
Ethio-Semitic
Amharicአያትአ የ ተ— grandfather
Branch structure: Huehnergard (2005), Rubin (2010). The reconstructed Proto-Semitic form is computed on the fly from the cognate set's majority reflex pattern.
Phoenician
irregular reflexphn · 1 lemmaPunic
irregular reflexpun · 1 lemma- }}
Imperial Aramaic
arc · 3 lemmas- there is, there are
- womanFrom Proto-Semitic *ʾanθ-at-. Cognate with Ugaritic 𐎀𐎘𐎚 (ảṯt), Hebrew אִשָּׁה (isháh), Arabic أُنْثَى (ʔunṯā). In Old Aramaic the construct state is אשת (ʾšt), pointing towards the earlier realization of the first /t/ as a fricative /θ/. Moreover, the nasal found in other Semitic languages assimilated to the…
- essence, substance
Classical Syriac
syc · 3 lemmas- there is/areCompare Aramaic אִית (ʾîṯ), Hebrew יֵשׁ (yēš).
- essence, entity, being, existing, substanceModified from ܐܝܬ (ʾīṯ). Compare Aramaic אית (e(j)ṯ).
- essence, substanceFrom ܐܝܬ (ʾīṯ) + -ܘܬܐ (-ūṯā, abstract noun ending). Compare Hebrew יֵשׁוּת (yēšûṯ).
▸ 1 derivation
- derivedܐܝܬܘܬܢܝܐ
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
aii · 4 lemmas- there is/areInherited from Aramaic אִית (ʾîṯ); cognate with Hebrew יֵשׁ (yésh), Akkadian 𒌇 (išûm), Ugaritic 𐎛𐎘 (ỉṯ, “presence, existence”).
▸ 2 derivations
- derivedܐܝܼܬ݂ܘܼܬ݂ܵܐīṯūṯā
- derivedܐܝܼܬ݂ܝܵܐīṯyā
- Used to form adverbs from nouns or adjectivesDerived from the feminine adjective ending -ܵܝܬܵܐ (-āytā).
- entity, beingLearned borrowing from Classical Syriac, nominalized from the adverb ܐܝܼܬ݂ (īṯ, “there is”).
- existence, essence, substanceLearned borrowing from Classical Syriac, from ܐܝܼܬ݂ (īṯ, “there is/are”) + -ܘܼܬ݂ܵܐ (-ūṯā, the abstract noun ending); compare Hebrew יֵשׁוּת (yeshút).
Hebrew
he · 8 lemmas- to be spelled/spelt
- to spell (as a word)
- defective spelling of איית
- defective spelling of אוית
- Form of אֶת (ét) including third-person feminine singular personal pronoun as object.
- Form of אֶת (ét) including third-person masculine singular personal pronoun as object.
- Form of אֶת (ét) including first-person singular personal pronoun as object: with me.
- a male given name, Itai or Itay
Amharic
am · 1 lemma- grandfather