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.

*lawaṯ-

1. to wind, to wallow

• 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: (liwwäsä, “to knead”)
    • Gurage: lawäsä (“to knead”)
    • Tigrinya: ለወሰ (läwwäsä, “to knead”)

• 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