Number: 914
Proto-Semitic: *dwy/ʔ (-a-) 1, *diʔ- 2
Meaning: 'to be ill, sick' 1, 'grave disease' 2
Akkadian: diʔu 'a grave desease characterized by a headache' OB on [CAD d 165], [AHw 174]; dāwûm 'Taumelnder' OB [AHw 166].
Cf. damû 'to suffer from convulsions' SB [AHw 166], [CAD d 80], dimītu 'a disease (paralysis, dizziness (?), poisoning of the flesh)' [ibid. 143]; though *VwV > VmV is normal for this period, these forms may as well go back to the root *dmw/y (see *dwm, No. )
Ugaritic: dwy 'ponerse malo, enfermar' [DLU 138]; dw 'enfermo' [ibid.], mdw 'Krankheit' [Aist 76]
Hebrew: dāwā 'to menstruate' [KB 216]; dāwǟ 'faint, sick; menstruating' [ibid.]
Judaic Aramaic: dǝwā 'to mourn, (itpe) 'to feel pain, groan'' [Ja 284]
Syrian Aramaic: dǝwī, dǝwā 'debilis, miser fuit' [Brock 143]
Mandaic Aramaic: DWA 'to be wretched, miserable' [DM 103]; (?) HRT dywn 'verrückt werden' [JHert 209]
Arabic: dwy (a) 'être malade' [BK 1 755]; dwʔ do. [ibid. 746], dawāʔ- 'remède, médicament', daw-an, dāʔ- 'maladie'
Geʕez (Ethiopian): dawaya, dawya 'to be sick, ill' [LGz 145]
Tigrai (Tigriñña): däwäya 'ammalarsi' [Bass 792]
Amharic: däwwäyä 'to be sick, to have leprosy' [K 1822].
According to [LGz 145], from GEZ, which has to be proved
Notes: Note that TGR däwa 'medicine' [LH 536] and EAST: SEL WOL däwi, ZWY dawä 'medicament, remedy' [LGur 223] are from ARB dawāʔ-. Also likely of Arabic origin are MHR adōwi 'to give medicine' [JM 76] and other similar MSA forms; JIB dít 'medicine' [JJ 43] is less certainly so, since there seems to be no derived form in -t in ARB.
[Fr 39]: *dawiy- 'sofferente' (GEZ, ARB, HBR, SYR, UGR, AKK; [DRS 231]: HBR, UGR, ARM, ARB, ETH, AKK, MSA; [KB 216]: HBR, UGR, ARM, ARB, ETH, AKK; [LGz 145]: ETH, HBR, UGR, ARM, ARB
