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▪ Kogan2011: from protSem *yawm‑ ‘day’ (both ‘daylight’ and ‘24 hours’). – Cf. also ↗šams < protSem *śamš‑ ‘sun’.
▪ Perh. … < AfrAs *yam‑ ‘day’.

hist

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cogn

▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘day’) Akk ūmu, Hbr yōm, Syr yawmā, Gz yōm ‘today’.
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disc

▪ Fronzaroli#3.24, Kogan2011: From Sem *yawm‑ ‘day’.
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#2576: The Sem word for ‘day’, *yawm‑, seems to have a cognate in ECh *yam‑ and perhaps LEC *yawan‑. All from AfrAs *yam‑ ‘day’. The authors ask themselves if the Sem form was or was not based on a biconsonantal Sem *yam‑ already.
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west

▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Yom Kippur, from Hbr yôm ‘day’, cf. Ar yawm.

deriv

► yāwama, vb. III, to hire by the day: denom.
► yawmaʔiḏin, adv., (on) that day, then, at that time: adv. of time in ‑iḏin.
► yawmaḏāka, adv., (on) that day, then: adv. of time, suffix ‑ḏāka.
► yawmī, adj., daily; by the day: nsb-adj; pl. yawmiyyāt, n.f.pl., everyday events; everyday chronicle; daily news; diary notes, daily notations; diary: nominalized nsb-adj.
► yawmiyyaẗ, n.f., dialy wages, a day’s wages; daily ration; a day’s work, daily task; diary, journal; daybook; calendar: nominalized nsb-adj., f.
► muyāwamaẗ, n.f., work by the day, day labor: vn. III.
► muyāwam: ʕummāl ~ūn, n.pl., day laborers: PP III.

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