Afroasiatic etymology : List with all references

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *gVl(gVl)-

Meaning: head; skull

Semitic: *ga/ulga/ul-at- 'skull, head'

Central Chadic: *gVl- 'head' 1 > *n-gul- 'temple' 2

East Chadic: *gVl- 'head'

Omotic: *gayl- 'head'

Notes: Cf. EDE I, 66-67.

Number: 2605

Proto-Semitic: *ga/ulga/ul-at-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: skull, head

Akkadian: gulgullu, gulgullatu Bab, NA [CAD g 127], [AHw 297]

Hebrew: gulgōlät [KB 191]

Judaic Aramaic: gulgultā, gulgaltā (also 'head') [Ja 221]; gwlglh, det. gwlglth [Sok 123]

Arabic: ǧalaǧat- 'crâne; tête' [BK 1 311] (< *ǧalǧal-at-?)

Notes: Traditionally regarded as related to ARB ǧumǧum-at- 'crâne, os du crâne' [BK 1 323] which is improbable. Unless the latter is a borrowing in MSA (which is impossible to verify), a separate SEM (ARB and MSA) root may be reconstructed, cf. MHR gǝmgǝmōt [JM 120], JIB gǝmgũt 'skull' [JJ 76], SOQ gémgémoh 'tête' [LS 110], [SSL LS 1457]). One also wonders whether TGR ǧämäǧǧǝm 'chin and cheeks' [LH 549] may be related: a "broken plural" coinciding with ARB ǧamāǧim-, and ǧ instead of *g speak for an Arabic borrowing; note, however, the difference in meaning.

[Fron 43] (*gulgul-(at-) 'cranio' /SOQ gemgemoh,ARB ǯulǯul- 'bubbolo', ǯumǯumat-, JUD, HBR, AKK); [DRS 117; 118]: AKK, HBR, JUD, SYR, MND, ARB; [Holma 11]: AKK, HBR, SYR, MND, ARB (ǧalaǧat-, ǧalǧalat-, ǧumǧumat-); [KB 191]: HBR, JUD, SYR, ARB (ǯulǯulat-), AKK.

Note that SYR gāgoltā elsewhere compared to this root (e.g. [KB 191], where an explicit reference to [Brock 103] is given) is translated in [Brock 103] as 'ambon in occidentali ecclesiae parte'.

As for ARB ǧulǧulat- (in [Holma] above) and ǧalǧalat- (in [KB] above), they are not found in the available dictionaries of ARB

Proto-CChadic: *gVl- , *n-gul-

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Meaning: 'head' 1, 'temple' 2

Mulwi: Muktele gǝ̀l 1 [CLR]

Zime-Dari: ŋ-gǝ́lā [Cpr]

Zime-Batna: ŋ-gǝ́la 2 [Sa]

Proto-EChadic: *gVl-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'head'

Kwang: gólò {CLR]

Mobu (dial. Kwang): gòló [Mobu Jg]

Notes: Cf. Sokoro geltim 'thy brain'.

Proto-Omotic: *gayl-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'head'

Ometo: Dizi gayli, geli

Notes: Cf. Sheko gari id. (-r- <*-l-?).

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