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PS
*dam-, *ˀa-dam- - blood
(SED I No. 50)
*ˀadam- with ˀa- prefixed is reconstructed on the PS level.
Lower-level reconstructions
Proto-MSA
*dVm-
- pus
(Kogan 2015: 551)
ousted from its original semantic slot by Proto-MSA
*ḏVr(y)-
Words
Akkadian
damu
- blood
(CAD D 75, AHw. 158)
Ugaritic
dm
- blood
(DUL 272)
Hebrew
dām
- blood
(HALOT 224)
Official Aramaic
dm
- blood
(DNWSI 251)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
ˀdm
- blood
(DJPA 35)
det. ˀdmh, ˀydmh
Christian Palestinian Aramaic
ˀdm, det. ˀdmˀ, ˀydmˀ, dmˀ
- blood
(DCPA 5)
Samaritan
ˀdm
- blood
(DSA 188)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
dmā
- blood
(DJBA 340)
Syriac
dmā
- blood
(LSyr. 156, SL 307)
Mandaic
dma, zma, adma, ˁzma
- blood
(MD 111, 168)
While zma appears as variant of dma id. (MD 111), it represents the main term for ‘blood’ in Mnd.
Mlaḥso
dmo
- Blut (blood)
(Jastrow 1994 172)
Turoyo
admo
- blut (blood)
(RW 30)
Arabic
dam-
- blood
(BK 1 736, Lane 916)
N. Yem. damm (Behnstedt 1992: 387), (same form in most Arb. dial., cf. Nöldeke 1910: 118).
Sabaic
dm
- blood
(SD 36)
Geez
dam
- blood
(CDG 133)
Tigre
däm, dämät
- blood
(WTS 514)
Tigrinya
däm
- blood
(TED 2067)
Amharic
däm
- blood
(AED 1716)
Harari
däm
- blood
(EDH 56)
Gurage
däm
- blood
(EDG 206)