Afroasiatic etymology : List with all references

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *wilVd-/*widVl-

Meaning: to bear a child

Semitic: *wld 'to give birth', *wilad- 'boy, child'

Central Chadic: *dawal- 'new' 1, 'young' 2

East Chadic: *dwal- 'young girl'

Low East Cushitic: *wadal-/*wald- 'young man' 1, 'society' 2

High East Cushitic: *wadal- ~ *walad- 'young (of animals)' 1, 'young man' 2, 'young woman' 3

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Proto-Semitic: *wld

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: to bear, give birth to 1 boy, child 2

Akkadian: walādu OB on [CAD A1 287], [AHw 1457-1458] 1; ildu, līdu 2

Ugaritic: yld, wld [Aist 127, 128] 1, 2

Canaanite: PHO yld [T 124] 1

Hebrew: yālad [KB 411] 1, yäläd 2

Aramaic: OFF NAB yld [HJ 457] 1

Judaic Aramaic: yǝlēd, yǝlīd [Ja 578], [Sok 240] 1

Syrian Aramaic: ʔīlēd [Brock 301] 1, 2

Mandaic Aramaic: YLD (etpe) 1 [DM 192].

Note more current metathetic YDL and ʕDL [ibid. 189]

Arabic: wld [BK 2 1602] 1, walad- 2

Epigraphic South Arabian: SAB wld [SD 160] 1

Geʕez (Ethiopian): walada [LGz 613] 1, wald 2

Tigre: wäldä [LH 430] 1

Tigrai (Tigriñña): wällädä [Bass 637] 1

Amharic: wällädä [K 1489] 1

East Ethiopic: HAR wɔlädä [LHar 159]; SEL WOL ZWY wälädä [LGur 651] 1

Gurage: SOD wällädä [ibid.] 1

Mehri: welēd (coll.) 'children, male or female' [JM 428]

Jibbali: élɔ́d 'to beget children', élɛ́d 'children' [JJ 291]

Notes: Note that MSA forms may be Arabisms.

[Fr 37]: *-wlid- 'partorire', *wald- 'progenie': GEZ, ARB, SYR, HBR, UGR, AKK; [DRS 546]: AKK, UGR, PHO, HBR, ARM, SAB, ETH; [KB 411]: HBR, ARM, UGR, PHO, SAB, ARB, GEZ, TGR, AKK; [LGz 613]: GEZ, ARB, SAB, HBR, ARM, UGR, PHO, AKK

Proto-CChadic: *dawal-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'new' 1, 'young' 2

Dghwede=Zǝɣwana: dǝwale 1

Malgwa: dáwale 2 [Lr]

Glavda: dálá 1, 2 [Rp]

Proto-EChadic: *dwal-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'young girl'

Mawa: dwal [Rob] jeune fille

Proto-Low East Cushitic: *wadal- ~ *wald-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'young man' 1, 'society' 2

Oromo (Galla): waldaa 2

Baiso: wɔdala 1

Proto-High East Cushitic: *wadal- ~ *walad-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'young (of animals)' 1, 'young man' 2, 'young woman' 3

Sidamo: wedel-icco 1, wedella 2, 3

Hadiya (Gudella): warad-icco 2 (-r- <*-l-)

Kambatta: wadal-iccu 2

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