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*dmy - to be like, resemble
(HALOT 225, Kogan 2015:236)
no obvious cognates, with a possible exception of Tna.
dämmäwä
- ‘to be handsome, beautifuľ.
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Akkadian
damtu
- figure (of a man)
(CAD D 74, CDA 55)
Var. dattu. The word may well be borrowed from Aramaic (hapax legomenon in a late lexical list), cf. Kogan 2015:234.
Hebrew
dmy
- to be like, resemble
(HALOT 225)
Syriac
dmy
- to be like, similar
(LSyr. 156, SL 308)
Syriac
dumyā
- similarity; image, figure, form
(LSyr. 156, SL 283)
Arabic
dumyat-
- image, effigy
(Lane 917)
Certainly borrowed from Aramaic.
Tigre
dumät
- uncertain outlines of a figure or of an object
(WTS 516)
Probably borrowed from Arabic
dumyat-
(Leslau 1990:176).