smd / Semitic roots

East Semitic, to grind (groats).

semolina, simnel, from Latin simila, ultimately (perhaps via Greek semidālis, fine wheaten flour) from a Semitic source akin to Aramaic səmidā, fine flour, Arabic samīd, semolina, both probably from Akkadian samīdu, a type of groats, from samādu, to grind into groats.