west▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl semolina, simnel, from Lat simila, ultimately (perh. via Grk semidālis ‘fine wheaten flour’) from a Sem source akin to Aram sᵊmidā ‘fine flour’, Ar ↗samīd ‘semolina’, both prob. from Akk samīdu ‘(a type of) groats’, from samādu ‘to grind into groats’.