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Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/lawaṯ-

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This Proto-Semitic entry contains reconstructed terms 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

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Verb

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*lawaṯ-

  1. to wind, to wallow

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • East Semitic:
    • Akkadian: 𒋃 (lāšum, to knead)
  • West Semitic:
    • Central Semitic:
      • Arabic: لَاثَ (lāṯa, to wind, to wallow)
      • Northwest Semitic:
        • Aramaic:
          Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: לוּשׁ (lōš, to knead)
          Samaritan Aramaic: ࠋࠔ (lōš, to knead)
          • Classical Mandaic: ࡋࡅࡔ (to knead)
          • Classical Syriac: ܠܳܫ (lōš, to knead)
        • Canaanite:
          • Hebrew: לָשׁ (lash, lāš, to knead)
        • Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎌 ( /⁠lāša⁠/, to soil, to plaster)
    • Ethiopian Semitic:
      • Argobba: lewwäsa (to knead)
      • Amharic: ለወሰ (läwwäsä, to knead)
      • Ge'ez: ሎሰ (losä, to knead)
      • Gafat: [script needed] (liwwäsä, to knead)
      • Gurage: lawäsä (“to knead”)
      • Tigrinya: ለወሰ (läwwäsä, to knead)

References

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  • 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 with Sanmartín, Joaquín and 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