ʿ m q
23 lemmas · 7 languages
soundAll three consonants are regularT Gen.14.3
Themes:deep·7valley·3depth·3deepness·2defective·2
POS shape:noun·11verb·7adj·5
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
*ʿ-mProto-Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Ugaritic𐎓𐎎𐎖𐎓 𐎎 𐎖— valley
Canaanite
Hebrewעֵמֶקע מ ק— valley
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicעמקע מ ק— to be deep
Syriacܥܡܩܐܥ ܡ ܩ— name of a vowel mark equivalent to /u/
Assyrian NAܥܘܼܡܩܵܐܥ ܡ ܩ— depth, deepness
Arabic
Arabicعَمْقع م ق— depth
South Semitic
Ethio-Semitic
Tigrinyaዓሚቝዐ መ ቐ— deep, profound (water, emotion, effect)
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- valley
Imperial Aramaic
arc · 3 lemmas- to be deep
- indefinite of עִמְקָא
- valleyCompare Hebrew עֵמֶק
Classical Syriac
syc · 2 lemmas- name of a vowel mark equivalent to /u/
- deep, deepnessFrom the root ܥ ܡ ܩ related to depth. Compare Arabic عُمْق (ʕumq) and Hebrew עֹמֶק (ʿṓmeq).
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
aii · 1 lemma- depth, deepnessInherited from Aramaic [Term?], of the noun pattern 1u23ā; compare Arabic عُمْق (ʕumq) and Hebrew עֹמֶק ('ómeq, “valley”).
Hebrew
he · 7 lemmas- valleyCompare with Arabic عَمْق (ʕamq, “depth, bottom, hollowness”).
- to be deepCompare with Arabic عَمْق (ʕamq, “depth, bottom, hollowness”).
- defective spelling of עומקCompare with Arabic عَمْق (ʕamq, “depth, bottom, hollowness”).
- defective spelling of עמוקCompare with Arabic عَمْق (ʕamq, “depth, bottom, hollowness”).
- depth
- deep
- to deepen
Arabic
ar · 8 lemmas- depth
- verbal noun of عَمُقَ (ʕamuqa, “to be or become deep”) (form I)
- masculine plural of عَمِيق (ʕamīq)
- elative degree of عَمِيق (ʕamīq)Elative of عَمِيق (ʕamīq, “deep”).
- to be or become deep
- to deepen
Tigrinya
ti · 1 lemma- deep, profound (water, emotion, effect)