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-

to wind, to wallow

Conjugation

Conjugation of Proto-Semitic/lawaṯ- (paʕala)

		singular				dual			plural
verbal noun					*lawṯ-
active participle					*lāwiṯ-
passive participle					lawīṯ-, lawūṯ-
		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person	1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person
perfect	m	*lawuṯku	*lawuṯka	*lawaṯa		*lawuṯkayā	*lawuṯkā	*lawaṯā	*lawuṯna	*lawuṯkanu	*lawaṯū
perfect	f	*lawuṯku	*lawuṯki	*lawaṯat		*lawuṯkayā	*lawuṯkā	*lawaṯatā	*lawuṯna	*lawuṯkina	*lawuṯā

imperfect	m	*ʔalūṯ	*talūṯ	*yilūṯ			*talūṯā	*yalūṯā	*nilūṯ	*talūṯū	*yilūṯū
imperfect	f	*ʔalūṯ	*talūṯī	*talūṯ			*talūṯā	*talūṯā	*nilūṯ	*talūṯā	*yilūṯā

imperative	m		*lūṯ				*lūṯā			*lūṯū
imperative	f		*lūṯī				*lūṯā			*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 (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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