Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/lawaṯ-

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

Verb

*lawaṯ-

  1. to wind, to wallow

Conjugation

Conjugation of *lawaṯ- (paʕala)
verbal noun *lawṯ-
active participle *lāwiṯ-
passive participle *lawīṯ-, *lawūṯ-
singular dual plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m *lawuṯku *lawuṯka *lawaṯa *lawuṯkayā *lawuṯkā *lawaṯā *lawuṯna *lawuṯkanu *lawaṯū
f *lawuṯki *lawaṯat *lawaṯatā *lawuṯkina *lawuṯā
imperfect m *ʔalūṯ *talūṯ *yilūṯ *talūṯā *yalūṯā *nilūṯ *talūṯū *yilūṯū
f *talūṯī *talūṯ *talūṯā *talūṯā *yilūṯā
imperative m *lūṯ *lūṯā *lūṯū
f *lūṯī *lūṯā

Descendants

  • 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 (lš /⁠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

  • Aro, Jussi (1963) “Gemeinsemitische Ackerbauterminologie”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎[1] (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
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