Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/wabal-

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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

Verb

*wabal-

  1. to carry, to bear, to support by muscular power
  2. (figurative) of plants: to bear a certain produce, so as to later yield
  3. (figurative) of bodies of water and similar: to carry, to have flowing, to stream
  4. (figurative) of human hardships: to bear, to tolerate, to suffer, to shoulder, to grieve

Conjugation

Conjugation of Proto-Semitic/wabal- (paʕala)
verbal noun *wabl-
active participle *wābil-
passive participle *wabīl-, *wabūl-
singular dual plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m *wabalku *wabalka *wabala *wabalkayā *wabalkā *wabalā *wabalna *wabalkanu *wabalū
f *wabalki *wabalat *wabalatā *wabalkina *wabalā
imperfect m *ʔabil *tabil *yibil *tabilā *yabilā *nibil *tabilū *yibilū
f *tabilī *tabil *tabilā *tabilā *yibilā
imperative m *bil *bilā *bilū
f *bilī *bilā

Derived terms

  • *wābil- (“carrier in the literal sense; a rod, a technical support; a stream, drench, channel, wadi”)
  • *wabl- (“something carried; a stream”)

Descendants

  • East Semitic:
    • Akkadian: 𒀀𒁀𒈝 (wabālum, “to carry, to transport, to bring”)
    • Eblaite: 𒂍𒁀𒀠 (ʾa₃-ba-al /⁠wabāl/ˀu(m)⁠/)
  • West Semitic:
    • Central Semitic:
      • Arabic: وَبَلَ (wabala)
      • Northwest Semitic:
        • Aramaic: (“to bring, to deliver”)
          Old Aramaic: 𐤉𐤁𐤋
          Imperial Aramaic: 𐡉𐡁𐡋 (ybl)
          Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Jewish Literary Aramaic, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: יבל
          • Classical Syriac: ܝܒܠ
          • ⇒ Aramaic: א־ב־ל (ʾ-b-l, “related to mourning, grief, etc.”) (see CAL for more)
        • Canaanite:
          • Amorite: 𐎊𐎁𐎍 (ybl, “to carry, to bring”)
          • Hebrew: יָבַל (yāḇal, “to carry, to bring along, to bear; to yield; to flow, to stream”)
        • Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎁𐎍 (ybl /⁠yabala⁠/, “to bring; to yield”)
        • ⇒ Egyptian: ywbꜣjrꜣ (“stream”)
      • Old South Arabian:

References

  • Huehnergard, John (2019) “Proto-Semitic”, in Huehnergard, John and Na'ama Pat-El, editors, The Semitic Languages, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 50, saying “*ja-t-wabal (3-RECP-carry. PCS) > *jawtabal (metathesis) > *jattabal” but this verb can be plausibly conceived for Proto-Semitic due to the frequency of the base
  • “ybl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986– is linked here for convenience in lack of Aramaic entries
  • Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 50–51
  • Olmo Lete, Gregorio del with Sanmartín, Joaquín and Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2015) “ybl etc.”, in A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 112), 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 935–937, calls the etymology of meanings related to streams of water uncertain, but via the idea of water “carrying” the relationship is straightforward.
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