Appendix:Proto-Semitic/yad-

Proto-Semitic

Noun

*yad- or ʿid-

1. hand

Comment

Stem ʿid- appears in Aramaic and Ethiopic branch, and also maybe in Akkadian. One wonders whether they're both reflexes of something like **ʿayad- or **yaʿid-.

Descendants

• Akkadian: (idu 'arm'), (on)
• Amharic: እጅ (əj)
• Arabic: يَد (yad)
  • Maltese: id
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܐܝܕܐ (’īdā’)

  Hebrew: אידא (’īdā’)

• Epigraphic South Arabian: 𐩺𐩵 (yd)
  • Minaean: (yd)
  • Qatabanian: (yd)
  • Sabaean: (yd)
• Ge'ez: እድ (ʾǝd)
• Hebrew: יד (yad)
• Phoenician: 𐤉𐤃 (yd)
• Tigre: እዴ (ʾǝde)
• Tigrinya: ኢድ (ʾid)
• Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎄 (yd)