Number: 1218
Proto-Semitic: *nwm
Meaning: to sleep, slumber
Akkadian: (?) nâmu 'schlummern' OB [AHw 729] (questioned in [CAD n1 251]).
Cf. also munattu (<*munamtu, cf. plural munāmātu) translated as 'Morgenschlummer' in [AHw 672], but 'waking hours' in [CAD m2 200]
Ugaritic: nhmmt 'sleep of death' [Gordon 422], [Del OLmo 588].
Both sources regard it as a composed word consisting of nhm 'sleep' (with an inserted -h-) and mt 'death' (otherwise in [Aist 90])
Hebrew: nwm 'to slumber, to be drowsy' [KB 680]
Aramaic: CHR-PAL nhm 'dormivit' [Schulthess 119], Jud-Pal nwm
Judaic Aramaic: nwm 'to slumber, to sleep' [Ja 887]; [Sok 314]
Syrian Aramaic: mwm 'dormitavit' [Brock 420]
Mandaic Aramaic: NUM 'to sleep' [DM 294]
Arabic: nwm 'dormir' [BK 2 1372]
Geʕez (Ethiopian): noma 'to sleep' [LGz 409]
Notes: Note forms with inserted -h- in UGR and ARM PAL.
[Fr 38]: *nawim- 'addormentato leggermente', *nawm-at- 'sonno leggero' (GEZ, ARB, SR, AKK); [LGz 409]: GEZ, HBR, ARM, ARB, UGR, AKK; [KB 680]: HBR, ARM, ARB, UGR, AKK, GEZ; [Brock 420]: SYR, HBR, ARB, GEZ, AKK
