▪ 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. …