| aphaireō | Greek | to diminish (?) , to subtract |
| 〈nasāḫu〉 ZI ‘to subtract’ | Akkadian | to subtract |
| 〈naḫāsu〉 LA₂ ‘to subtract’ | Akkadian | to subtract |
| 〈muṭṭû〉 LA₂ ‘to subtract’ | Akkadian | to subtract |
| 〈šūlû〉 E₁₁ ‘to subtract’ | Akkadian | to subtract |
| 〈mḥ-2.t〉 ‘waning (of the Moon)’ | Egyptian | waning (of the Moon) |
| 〈deficio〉 ‘to be waning’ | Latin | to wane , to be eclipsed , to be too low |
| 〈minutus〉 ‘waning’ | Latin | waning |
| 〈abstraho〉 ‘to make separate’ | Latin | to make separate , to subtract |
| 〈aufero〉 ‘to subtract’ | Latin | to subtract , to move away |