PWS

*ˁwr - to be blind (SED I No. 5ᵥ; Kogan 2015: 77)

There is no trace of *ˁwr ‘to be blind’ in Akkadian; all the alleged cognates mentioned in SED I No. 5ᵥ are highly unreliable (Kogan 2015: 77)

Ugaritic

ˁwr - blind man (DUL 195)

Phoenician

ˁwr - blind (Tomback 240)

Very uncertain; see discussion in DNWSI 834.

Hebrew

ˁiwwēr - blind (HALOT 803)

Hebrew

ˁiwwēr - (pi.) to blind (HALOT 802)

Old Aramaic

ˁwr - to be blinded (DNWSI 834)

Syriac

ˁwārā, ˁwīrā - blind (LSyr. 518, SL 1086)

Mandaic

ˁuira - blind (MD 343)

cf. ˁbira ‘blind’ [ibid. 340] with unexplained -b-.

Maalula

ˁwr - erblinden (GNDM 5)

cf. ˁbira ‘blind’ [ibid. 340] with unexplained -b-.

Arabic

ˁwr - to be one-eyed (BK 2 404, Lane 2193)

cf. ˁbira ‘blind’ [ibid. 340] with unexplained -b-.

Geez

ˁora - to be blind (CDG 79)

Note also ˀanˁorara ‘become blind’ (with ˀan- prefixed and a partial reduplication; on this formation in Eth. see [Conti Bilitterismo 73-93]) and ˁǝrǝrt ‘kind of eye-desease’ [ibid. 71].

Tigre

ˁorä - to be blind (WTS 477)

Amharic

awwärä - to blind (AED 1267)

Argobba

ǝwwǝr - blind (Leslau 1997: 194)

Selti

ūr - blind (EDG 83)

Muher

(t)awwärä - to be blind (EDG 114)

Note compounds with in, en ‘eye’ in Muh. enur, Wol. inur ‘blind’ [ibid. 73].

Mehri

ˀáywer (yāwōr) - to be blind (ML 37)

Jibbali

ˁēr (yaˁbɔ́r) - to go blind (JL 19)

(b - < *w-).

Harsusi

ˀáywer (yāwōr) - to be blind (HL 12)