Bibliotheca Polyglotta

▪ MYD_1 ‘to be shaken, sway, swing; to feel giddy, be dizzy’ ↗māda
▪ MYD_2 ‘table’ ↗māʔidaẗ
▪ MYD_3 ‘square, open place; arena, combat area, race-course, playground; field, domain’ ↗maydān
▪ MYD_4 ‘measure, amount, length, distance; (prep.) in front of, opposite’ ↗mīdāʔ
▪ MYD_5 (EgAr) ‘foundation girder, lintel, breastsummer (arch.), keelson (naut.)’ ↗mēdaẗ, mīdaẗ

Other values, now obsolete, include (Lane1885, Hava1899):

▪ ^†MYD_6 ‘to confer, bestow benefit(s) or favour(s) (-h on s.o.), give, furnish s.o. with provisions for travelling’ : ^†māda
▪ ^†MYD_7 ‘to visit (‑h s.o.)’ : ^†māda
▪ ^†MYD_8 ‘to increase, grow’ : ^†māda
▪ ^†MYD_9 ‘because, unless’ : ^†maydà ʔan; cf. also ^†maydà ~ maydā ‘on account of’
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♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to shake, sway, fluctuate; to feed, provide for, a banquet, table laden with food, to grant favours to s.o.; a square’

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▪ [v1] From CSem *√MYD ‘to sway, move, shake’ – Huehnergard2011.

▪ [v2] From Gz māʔədd (ʔəgzīʔabḥēr)‘(the Lord’s) Table’ – Jeffery1938.

▪ [v3] Prob. from mPers m(a)idan, maiδyana ‘middle, centre, between’ (thus ultimately IndEur *médʰ-jo- ‘middle, centre’) – cf. Asbaghi1988, Rolland2014.

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