Number: 2623
Proto-Semitic: *naḫ-
Meaning: respiratory mucosa; phlegm
Akkadian: nah_nah_atu 'Nasenscheidewand' NA [AHw 715], 'cartilage' [CAD n1 140] (redupl.). Note Holma's translation 'Nasenknorpel, Nasenwurzel' (with a comprehensive semantic discussion) [Holma 20]
Syrian Aramaic: naḥnaḥtā 'tonsillae' [Brock 423] (redupl.)
Arabic: nuh_mat- 'ce que l'on jette par la bouche ou par le nez, comme pituite, glaire, etc.', nuh_āmat- do. [BK 2 1223].
On suffixed -m cf. Introduction
Jibbali: nh_ɔh_ 'phlegm' [JJ 199]
Notes: Note various strategies of triconsonantization in individual languages: stem reduplication in AKK, SYR and TGR (cf. a derived verb tänäḥanäḥa 'débarrassa son gosier' [LH 324, apud. d'Abb]); doubling of a second radical in JIB; taking ʔ as a second or third radical in GEZ; inclusion of -m suffix as a third radical in ARB.
Note HBR PB nīăʕ 'the effort made to remove phlegm, hawking; the phlegm discharged by hawking' [Ja 906], a variant root with ʕ/h_?
One wonders if AKK nāh_u, nuh_h_u 'lard' OAkk on [CAD n1 142; n2 317], [AHw 715-16] and ARB nuh_h_-, nah_āh_at- 'moelle' [BK 2 1219] can be compared with a meaning shift 'phlegm' > 'a viscid substance' (cf. a somewhat similar meaning shift in HBR ḥēläb 'fat' vs. ARM JUD ḥēläb 'a viscous substance, glair', see *h_ilb-, No. ).
[Holma 20]: AKK, SYR; [Brock 423]: SYR, AKK
