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▪ ^†HYM_2 ‘quick-sand, drift-sand’: ^†huyām (pl. huyum); cf. also ^†haymāʔᵘ ‘waterless desert’
▪ ^†HYM_3 ‘starless’: in ^†layl ʔahyamᵘ, ^†laylaẗ haymāʔᵘ ‘starless night’
▪ ^†HYM_4 ‘to take care of o.s.’: ĭhtāma li-nafsi-h (vb. VIII); cf. also him (vb. I) li-nafsi-ka ‘mind thy own business!’
▪ ^†HYM_5 ‘…’ : ^†…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to wander about aimlessly, be confused, be bewildered, be puzzled, be robbed of the senses; to be infatuated, be enchanted, be carried away; to be demented by thirst, a waterless desert’

conc

▪ [gen] : DRS HW/YM-1 arranges HWM and HYM items together in one group, while a relation between them is not obvious. For ‘head’ and ‘to doze off’ see therefore ↗HWM.
▪ [v1] : Given the Hbr and Aram cognates, it seems that the primary value was *‘(to wander about in) confusion, panic’. But should the reason for *‘confusion, panic’ be secondary? One may assume that *‘thirst’ was first and that all other values developed from there. ‘Passionate love’ would then be metaphoric use of *‘thirst’, and ‘wandering about aimlessly’ an extension built on ‘to be thirsty, be demented by thirst’. From there, it is not far to the next stage, that of ‘to be(come) confused, robbed of one’s senses (either as a result of thirst or of passionate love)’.
▪ ^†[v2] : cf. ↗^†HWM_3? Or rather related to [v1] ‘to wander about aimlessly’?
▪ ^†[v3] : dto. ?
▪ ^†[v4] : prob. a var. of ĭhtamma, see ↗HMː (HMM).
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▪ DRS HW/YM-1 Hbr *hām ‘mettre en déroute’, məhūmāʰ ‘affolement, panique’, oAram hwm, thm ‘être hors de soi, se lamenter’, Syr hūmā ‘persécution ( ? )’. – Ar hāma ‘errer comme un fou; aimer éperdument; avoir soif’, huyām, hiyām ‘amour passionné, soif ardente’, haymiyāʔ ‘fascination, exorcisme des démons’; DaṯAr hām ‘disparaître’, EAr hāme ‘spectre, fantôme’. – hāmaẗ ‘tête, sommet de la tête; chouette’, hawwama ‘secouer la tête en sommeillant’, hāma ‘dormir’. – hawm ‘intérieur de la terre’, hawmaẗ ‘vaste plaine’, haymāʔ ‘désert’, hayām, huyām ‘sable mouvant’, ʔahyamᵘ ‘sombre (nuit)’. -2 tahayyum ‘démarche élégante’. -3 SaudAr hām ‘serpent’, hawām: insectes en général, reptiles, vers; ? hēm: irritation que provoquent certains petits insectes chez les gallinacés. -4 Amh homa ‘troupe d’éléphants’
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disc

▪ See above, section CONC.
▪ DRS #HW/YM-1 suggests to compare also ↗ʔWM.
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