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Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/lawaṯ-

This Proto-Semitic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Semitic

Verb

*lawaṯ-

  1. to wind, to wallow

Descendants
  • Akkadian: 𒋃 (lāšu, “to knead”)
  • Arabic: لَاثَ‎ (lāṯa, “to wind, to wallow”)
  • Northwest Semitic:
    • Aramaic:
      • Jewish Aramaic: לוּשׁ‎ (lōš, “to knead”)
      • Classical Mandaic: ࡋࡅࡔ‎ (“to knead”)
      • Samaritan Aramaic: ࠋࠔ‎ (lōš, “to knead”)
      • Classical Syriac: ܠܴܫ‎ (lōš, “to knead”)
    • Hebrew: לָשׁ‎ (lāš, “to knead”)
    • Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎌 (lš, “to soil, to plaster”)
  • Ethiopian:
    • Argobba: lewwäsa (“to knead”)
    • Amharic: ለወሰ (läwwäsä, “to knead”)
    • Ge'ez: ሎሰ (losä, “to knead”)
    • Gafat: liwwäsä (“to knead”)
    • Gurage: lawäsä (“to knead”)
    • Tigrinya: ለወሰ (läwwäsä, “to knead”)

References
  • Aro, Jussi (1963), “Gemeinsemitische Ackerbauterminologie”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 113, page 477
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 321
  • Olmo Lete, Gregorio del; Sanmartín, Joaquín; Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2015), “lš”, in A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 112), 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 500–501
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