عٞاجُم
ˁégom (yéˁógem/ľiˁgám)
basic morphological information

v. (Ia)

to shut
закрывать
سَدَّ
LS 297; Bulakh et al. 2021:241
text examples

šerḳóḥoʰ ḥe záˁadhim men néḳheḷ di-ˀaḷ-ˁígɛm ‘A mouse ran out from a hole (in the floor) which was not blocked’ (Bulakh et al. 2021:241)

morphological notes

pass. ˁígɛm (yeˁóugom/ľiˁgóm)

root
ˁgm
derivates
etymology

As rightly seen by Leslau (LS 297), the basic meaning of PWS *ˁgm is ‘to block, to stop’, preserved in Soqotri and represented elsewhere by Arb. ˁǯm IV ‘to lock a door’, Mhr. ˁatgem ‘to be blocked’, Jib. ˁógúm ‘to block’. For the (diachronically) derived meaning ‘to be dumb’ cf. Arb. ˁǯm ‘to have an impediment in one’s speech’, Mhr. ˀáygem ‘to be dumb’, Jib. ˁégem ‘to be dumb’. Traditionally, Hbr. ˁgm ‘to be sad’ and JPA ˁgm ‘to grieve’ are further compared, but they are hard to separate from Akk. agāmu ‘to be angry’, semantically rather remote from ‘to (be) block(ed)’.

continental MSA
  • Mhr. ˀáygəm to be dumb; (Gt) to be blocked
  • Jib. ˁégəm to be dumb; (D) to block
By regular expression