Number: 81
Proto-Semitic: *ʕVṭiš-
Meaning: to sneeze
Hebrew: ʕăṭīšā 'sneezing' [KB 814]
Judaic Aramaic: ʕăṭaš, ʕăṭēš [Ja 1065]; [Sok 402]
Syrian Aramaic: ʕăṭāšā 'sternamentum' [Brock 521]
Arabic: ʕṭs (-i-) [BK 2 285]
Geʕez (Ethiopian): ʕts
Amharic: anäṭṭäsä [К 1251]
East Ethiopic: SEL anṭǝšš *balä-, WOL ǝnṭiššo balä-, ZWY haṭṭišo bālä- [LGur 109]
Gurage: CHA äṭiššä barä-, EŽA ǝṭṭǝš amännä-, GYE aṭǝšä barä-, at-reṭäsä, ENN ä~ṭšä barä-, at-rǟṭäsä, END anṭiššu barä-, haṭṭiššu barä-, MUH anṭǝšš *balä-, at-näṭṭäsä-, MSQ ǝnṭǝšše barä-, GOG anṭǝšš *balä-, at-näṭṭäsä-, SOD at-niṭṭäsä, EZ̆A at-räṭṭäsä, CHA at-rätäsä- [ibid.]
Mehri: ʔáwṭǝh (yāṭāh) [JM 34]
Jibbali: ʕɔṭɔš (yʕéṭǝš) [JJ 19]
Soqotri: ʕéṭoš [LS 306]
Notes: Cf. the irregular yielding of *ʕ- as ḥ, or rather variant roots with ḥ- in TGR and HAR, and with h-/ʔ- in TNA, while in other MOD ETH the lost first radical may go down either to *ḥ- or to *ʕ-; note also a secondary -n- in some of MOD ETH, with *-nṭ- > -ṭṭ- in others: TGR ḥaṭṭäšä, ḥanṭäšä 'to sneeze' [LH 100], TNA haṭäsä, hanṭäšä [LGz 77] (not in [Bass]), ʔǝnṭǝšo bälä 'starnutire' [[Bass 539]; EAST: HAR ḥaṭṭiš bāya [LHar 88] (possibly belonging here are the ZWY and END forms in h- quoted below). [KB 814]: HBR, ARM, ARB, GEZ, TGR; [LGz 77]: GEZ, HBR, ARM, ARB, SOQ
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