s m y
18 lemmas · 7 languages
III-weakThird consonant is w or y. The weak consonant often disappears in the perfect (r-m-y → ramā 'threw'). Known as lamed-he in Hebrew, tertiae infirmae.
Themes:heaven·3blue·2
POS shape:verb·9noun·5adj·2name·1prefix·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
*s-m-wProto-Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Canaanite
Hebrewסמי־ס מ י— Semi-, half-.
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicסמיס מ י— to be blind
Assyrian NAܣܸܡܹܝܠܹܐܣ ܡ ܝ— Simele (an Assyrian town in northern Iraq)
Arabic
Arabicسُمِّيس م ي
South Semitic
Ethio-Semitic
Ge'ezሰማይሰ መ የ— heaven
Amharicሳማס מ י— nettle (Urtica simensis)
Tigrinyaሰማይሰ መ የ— heaven
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- to be blind
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
aii · 2 lemmas- Simele (an Assyrian town in northern Iraq)Derived from the noun ܣܸܡܵܠܵܐ (simmālā, “left”).
▸ 2 derivations
- derivedܣܸܡܹܝܠܢܵܝܵܐsimmēlnāyā
- derivedܦܪܵܡܬܵܐ ܕܣܸܡܹܝܠܹܐprāmtā d-simmēlē
- feminine of ܣܸܡܝܵܐ (simyā)
Hebrew
he · 1 lemma- Semi-, half-.
Arabic
ar · 8 lemmasGe'ez
gez · 1 lemma- heavenFrom Proto-Semitic *šamāy- (“sky, heaven”).
Amharic
am · 3 lemmas- nettle (Urtica simensis)
- heavenFrom Proto-Semitic *šamāy- (“sky, heaven”).
- blueFrom ሰማይ (sämay) + [Term?] (“awi”)
Tigrinya
ti · 2 lemmas- heavenFrom Proto-Semitic *šamāy- (“sky, heaven”).
- blue