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 Proto-Semitic/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 (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