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√ʔYR
May (Syr Leb Irq Jord) – WehrCowan1976
▪ The LevIrq word for ‘May’, ʔayyārᵘ, is possibly a borrowing into WSem from Akk ayyaru where it (according to von Soden, AHW) may have meant ‘month of the flowers’ (cf. below, section COGN, DRS items #5 and #6). – Any relation to the notion of ‘light, heat, fire’ (↗ʔWR, esp. Ar ↗ʔuwār)?
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▪ DRS 1 (1994) ʔYR-1-4 […]. -5 Akk ayyar-, iyar- ‘fleur, rosette’, ayyart- ‘corail blanc’. -6 *ʔayyar-: nom de mois (environ ‘mai’) : Akk ayyar-, JudPalAram ʔiyyār, Nab ʔyr, Mnd ayar, Ar ʔayyārᵘ.
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ʔayr as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ʔYR.
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