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n š ʾ

23 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.13.6
Themes:forget·2infinitive·2nas·2raised·2
POS shape:verb·12noun·8name·1adj·1pron·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

*n-š-ʾProto-Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Ugaritic𐎐𐎌𐎀𐎐 𐎌 𐎀to raise, lift up
Canaanite
Hebrewמַשָּׂאנ שׂ אa burden
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicנשאנ ש אto bear, to carry
Syriacܢܫܐܢ ܫ ܐemphatic plural of ܐܢܬܬܐ
Assyrian NAܢܵܫܹܐܢ ܫ ܐto forget (to cease remembering)
Arabic
Arabicنِطْعن ش ءa piece of lamb leather washed and tanned so one can sit on it, recline on it, play boardgames on it, eat on it, or form a sack from it by pulling a cord; executioners used it to collect the blood of the decapitated
South Semitic
Ethio-Semitic
Tigrinyaንስኻትክንנ ש אyou (second-person plural feminine personal subject pronoun)

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

Imperial Aramaic

arc · 1 lemma
  • verbinferred𐡀 tg. Jer. Gen 49:22Wiktionary ↗
    to bear, to carry

Classical Syriac

syc · 1 lemma
  • nouninferredWiktionary ↗
    emphatic plural of ܐܢܬܬܐ
    Compare Arabic نِسَاء (nisāʔ) and Hebrew נָשִׁים (nāšîm).

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

aii · 4 lemmas
  • nāšēverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to forget (to cease remembering)
    Inherited from Aramaic [Term?]; cognate of Arabic نَسِيَ (nasiya).
  • mnaššēnameattestedWiktionary ↗
    Manasseh, Manasses
    From Classical Syriac, from Biblical Hebrew מְנַשֶּׁה (mənaššeh, “Manasseh”).
  • manšēverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to make forget
    Causitive of ܢܵܫܹܐ (nāšē, “to forget”); compare Arabic نَسَّى (nassā).
  • niššēnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    plural of ܐܲܢ݇ܬܬ݂ܵܐ (atṯā, “woman; wife”)
    Inherited from Aramaic [Term?]; compare Turoyo ܢܶܫ̈ܶܐ (neše)/ܢܝܫ̈ܶܐ (niše), Arabic نِسَاء (nisāʔ), and Hebrew נָשִׁים (nashím).

Hebrew

he · 8 lemmas
  • masánounattestedT Num.4.15Wiktionary ↗
    a burden
  • s'etverbattestedT Gen.4.7Wiktionary ↗
    bare infinitive (infinitive construct or gerund) of נָשָׂא (nasá)
  • nounattestedWiktionary ↗
    A record, a peak: the most extreme known value of a given measure.
  • hisíverbattestedT Jer.49.16Wiktionary ↗
    to marry off; to officiate at a wedding
  • noséverbattested✡︎ m. Ber. 5:4Wiktionary ↗
    Masculine singular present participle and present tense of נָשָׂא (nasá).
  • nisáverbattestedT Gen.13.6Wiktionary ↗
    to be raised, lifted up, carried away
    2 derivations
  • nasúadjattestedT Jer.10.5Wiktionary ↗
    raised (eyes)
  • nasúnounattestedT Jer.10.5Wiktionary ↗
    predicate

Arabic

ar · 7 lemmas
  • niṭʕnounattestedWiktionary ↗
    a piece of lamb leather washed and tanned so one can sit on it, recline on it, play boardgames on it, eat on it, or form a sack from it by pulling a cord; executioners used it to collect the blood of the decapitated
    Apparently from Old South Arabian, perhaps mediated and distorted in local Aramaic, compare Sabaean 𐩬𐩦𐩱 (ns²ʾ, “to build up, to raise (buildings, terraces etc.); to take out (water); to levy (taxes); to expel”), 𐩬𐩦𐩱𐩬 (ns²ʾn, “a social class, stratum”), 𐩣𐩬𐩦𐩱 (mns²ʾ, “a gathering, assembly; (military) campaign,…
    5 derivations
  • nuṭiʕaverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to change the color into a pale one
    Apparently from Old South Arabian, perhaps mediated and distorted in local Aramaic, compare Sabaean 𐩬𐩦𐩱 (ns²ʾ, “to build up, to raise (buildings, terraces etc.); to take out (water); to levy (taxes); to expel”), 𐩬𐩦𐩱𐩬 (ns²ʾn, “a social class, stratum”), 𐩣𐩬𐩦𐩱 (mns²ʾ, “a gathering, assembly; (military) campaign,…
  • ʔanšaʔaverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to create, to establish, to found
  • našāʔnounattestedWiktionary ↗
    verbal noun of نَشَأَ (našaʔa) (form I)
  • munšaʔanounattestedWiktionary ↗
    facility
  • inšaʔnaverbinferredWiktionary ↗
  • inšaʔīverbinferredWiktionary ↗

Tigrinya

ti · 1 lemma
  • nəssəxatkənproninferredWiktionary ↗
    you (second-person plural feminine personal subject pronoun)
    From a reduced form of Proto-Semitic *napš- with a possessive argument index.

Related rootsshare 2 of 3 consonants with n-š-ʾ

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