ʿ m t
15 lemmas · 9 languages
soundAll three consonants are regular📜 Exod.25.27
Themes:paternal·4aunt·4year· سَنَة · שָׁנָה·3father· أَب · אָב·2sister· أُخْت · אָחוֹת·2
POS shape:noun·12name·1prep·1root·1
This root is attested across 9 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-m-tProto-Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Canaanite
Hebrewעָמִיתע מ ת— a male given name, Amit
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicעמתאע מ ת— paternal aunt
Syriacܥܡܬܐܥ ܡ ܬ— paternal aunt (father's sister)
Assyrian NAܥܲܡܬܵܐܥ ܡ ܬ— paternal blood aunt (sister of one's father)
Turoyoܥܡܬܐܥ ܡ ܬ— paternal aunt
Arabic
Arabicعَمَّاتع م ت— plural of عَمَّة (ʕamma)
South Semitic
Ethio-Semitic
Ge'ezዓመትዐ መ ተ— year
Amharicዐመትዐ መ ተ— alternative spelling of ዓመት (ʿamät)
Tigrinyaዓመትዐ መ ተ— year
Branch structure: Huehnergard (2005), Rubin (2010). The reconstructed Proto-Semitic form is computed on the fly from the cognate set's majority reflex pattern.
Imperial Aramaic
arc · 1 lemma- paternal aunt
Classical Syriac
syc · 1 lemma- paternal aunt (father's sister)Compare Arabic عَمَّة (ʕamma).
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
aii · 1 lemma- paternal blood aunt (sister of one's father)From Aramaic עָמתָא (ʿamṯā); related to Arabic عَمَّة (ʕamma).
Hebrew
he · 6 lemmas- a male given name, Amit
- confrontation, conflictVerbal noun of עִמֵּת (imét, “confront”).
- colleague
- As opposed to; compared to; compared with; versus; by contrast.From לְ־ + עֻמַּת (construct form of עֻמָּה).
- Related to friendship, association, joining.The "friendship" sense is a backformation from עמית, itself related to Aramaic עֲמִיתָא (“friend”) and Akkadian emūtu (“family, company”), and the root ע־מ־ה.
- non-profit organizationFrom עָמִית (amít, “colleague”).
Arabic
ar · 1 lemma- plural of عَمَّة (ʕamma)
Ge'ez
gez · 1 lemma- yearFrom Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-.
▸ 1 derivation
- relatedአመትʾämät
Amharic
am · 2 lemmas- alternative spelling of ዓመት (ʿamät)
- yearFrom Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-. Cognates include Ge'ez ዓም (ʿam) and Arabic عَام (ʕām).
Tigrinya
ti · 1 lemma- yearFrom Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-.
Turoyo
tru · 1 lemma- paternal aunt