Omotic etymology : List with all references

Proto-Omotic: *ʒumʔ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: blood

Dime: z/ʒumu 'blood taken from an ox'

Ari: zomʔi, zom

Hamer: zumʔu

Notes: Bla Om 8

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ʒam(ʔ)-

Meaning: blood

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Semitic: *zam-

Central Chadic: *ʒVm-? 'vein'

Omotic: *ʒumʔ-

Notes: cf. EDE I 183

Number: 2242

Proto-Semitic: *zam- {} *ʒam-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: blood

Mandaic Aramaic: zma 'blood' [DM 168]; also ʕzma (with the *ʔa-prefix?).

While a doublet of dma do. [ibid. 111], represents the main term for 'blood' in MND

Arabic: zaʔama 'presser une plaie de manière que le pus en sorte, le sang se dessèche et forme une croûte' [BK 1 967]

Modern Arabic: SYR zūm 'blood; juice'

Geʕez (Ethiopian): zam 'blood' [LGz 638].

Other meanings 'broth; impurity left in broth by boiled meat' [ibid.], if in fact referring to zam, are likely to be due to contamination with zom, zomo (from GREEK zōmos 'soup, sauce, broth' [ibid.])

Notes: Debatable. Attested only in MND, GEZ and, as a verb, in ARB, looks an original SEM root to differentiate from a loan of GREEK zōmos 'soup, sauce, broth' (but not 'blood'!) in some of SEM: HBR PB zōm 'juice, brine' [Ja 387], zāmīt, zōmīt '[foam]; name of a brine' [ibid. 403]; JUD zōmā 'juice, brine, broth, pulp' [ibid. 387], SYR zūmā, zūmūs 'jus; liquor' [Brock 192]; GEZ zom, zomo 'blood; broth; impurity left in broth by boiled meat' [LGz 638] (the meaning 'blood', if not a confusion, must be due to contamination with zam, see above).

The vocalic reconstruction is highly tentative based on the presumption that GEZ zam (unlike zom, from GREEK) retains the old vowel.

Note AFRAS: CHAD and HAMER

Proto-CChadic: *ʒVm-?

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: vein

Daba: žèmi

Borean (approx.) : CVMV

Meaning : blood

Afroasiatic : *ʒam(ʔ)- blood

Notes : No known external parallels.

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