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√QDM
▪ QDM_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ QDM_2 ‘…’ ↗… ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘foot; position, rank, leader, to lead; to come, to arrive; front, to advance, fore, in the front; brave, courageous; to precede, to be old, ancient, eternal; to submit’
▪ From protSem *qadm‑ ‘front, east, earlier time’, with denom. vb., ‘to precede, be in front’ – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘to proceed, precede’) Akk (qudmu ‘past’), Hbr (ints) qdm, Syr qdm a (u), Gz qdm a (e).
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl cadmium, Cadmus, from Grk Kadmos, from Phoen *qadm ‘front, east’, akin to Ar √QDM.
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