ḏ / Semitic roots

Examples of words with the root ḏ: Dhu'l-Hijjah, Dhu'l-Qa'dah, zayin, zeta.

ḏ

Common Semitic *ḏv̄- (or *ṯv̄-), determinative-relative pronoun.

1.
a. cedilla, izzard, zed, zeta, from Greek zēta, alteration (influenced by the following letter ēta, eta) of Phoenician *zēn, seventh letter of the Phoenician alphabet, perhaps from *ḏayna, these two (oblique dual of *ḏv̄-), the original form of the letter being two lines;;
b. zayin, from Hebrew zayin, from alteration of Phoenician *zēn (see above)..
2. Dhu'l-Hijjah, Dhu'l-Qa'dah, from Arabic ḏū l-ḥijja, the one of the pilgrimage, and ḏū l-qaʕda, the one of the sitting, from ḏū, demonstrative pronoun, possessor of.

Browse all Indo-European or Semitic roots.