Afroasiatic etymology : List with all references

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ɣurl- (?)

Meaning: male organ

Semitic: *ɣurl-(at-) 'foreskin, prepuce'

Notes: Insufficient data, though the affinity is striking. Can be an Arabism in Mubi, but note the difference in meaning.

Number: 1628

Proto-Semitic: *ɣurl-(at-)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: foreskin, prepuce

Akkadian: urullu 'Vorhaut' [AHw 1436]

Canaanite: EG SYLL ḳu₄-r=na=ta /*ɣurlata, ɣurlōta/ 'foreskin, uncircumcised phallus' [Hoch 302]

Phoenician:

Hebrew: ʕorlā 'foreskin' [KB 866]

Judaic Aramaic: ʕurlā, ʕurlǝtā 'prepuce' [Ja 1058]; ʕorlā, det. ʕrlth 'foreskin' [Sok 420]

Syrian Aramaic: ʕurlā 'praeputiatus', ʕurlūtā 'praeputium' [Brock 548]

Arabic: ɣurlat- 'pénis gros et non circoncis'' [BK 2 461].

Cf. metathetic ruɣlat- 'prépuce' [ibid. 1 890]. Cf. also ɣurmūl- 'pénis gros et non circoncis' [ibid. 2 461](metathetic <*ɣarlūm-, with suffixed -m?)

Notes: [Holma 97], [KB 866], [Brock 548]: HBR, ARM, ARB, AKK

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