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*yamm- - sea
(Fronzaroli 1968: 273, 288, 299; Kogan 2011: 191; Kogan 2015: 240)
Words
Ugaritic
ym
- sea
(DUL 965)
Hebrew
yām
- lake, sea
(HALOT 413)
Syriac
yammā
- sea, lake, swamp, marsh
(LSyr. 303, SL 575)
Arabic
yamm-
- tihāmat (sea)
(LA 12 772)
almost certainly borrowed from Hebrew or Aramaic (Jeffery 1938:293).