Number: 110
Proto-Semitic: *muḫḫ-
Meaning: (top of the) head; brain; marrow
Akkadian: muh_h_u 'skull, top of the head' OAkk on [CAD m2 172], [AHw 667]
Eblaitic: mu-h_u-um /muh_h_um/ 'parte superiore della testa' [Kr 12; Fr 173; Bl E No. 70]
Ugaritic: mh_ 'Mark' [Aist 181]
Hebrew: mōăḥ 'bone-marrow' [KB 567]
Judaic Aramaic: mōăḥ (mōḥā) 'marrow, brain, head' [Ja 740]; mwḥ 'skull, brain' [Sok 294]
Syrian Aramaic: muḥḥā 'cerebrum, medulla' [Brock 379]
Modern Aramaic: MMND mōx al-rīša 'brain' [M MND 494] AZRB moxa 'brain-marrow' [Garb 320]
Mandaic Aramaic: muha 'brain, head' [DM 260]
Arabic: muh_h_- 'moelle, cervelle' [BK 2 1071].
Cf. a variant root nuh_h_-, nah_āh_at- 'moelle' [ibid. 1219]
Notes: Note the meaning 'top of the head' in AKK and EBL and 'head, skull' in ARM vs. 'brain, marrow' in HBR, ARM and ARB.
Cf. PHO mḥ 'fat' [HJ 610] (uncertain), mḥ (adj.) 'fat, rich' [ibid.] and HBR mēăḥ 'fatling' [KB 567] (a meaning shift from 'brain, marrow'?).
Cf. *mVʕmVʕ- 'brain', No. .
[Fron 42] (*muh_h_- 'midollo, cervello' /ARB,SYR,HBR,UGR,AKK/); [Holma 12]: AKK, HBR, SYR, JUD, PUN (mḥ 'Fett'); [KB 567]: HBR, ARM, ARB, AKK, UGR; [Brock 379]: SYR, ARM, HBR, PUN, ARB, AKK
