Proto-Semitic root
*wld
‘to bear, give birth to’ 1, ‘boy, child’ 2
di Mino’s gloss: to give birth, beget; child, offspring
Record 2109 ↗ · SED semet 2311 · Basis: SED, meaning edited
In Linear A1 entry
Notes
Ge’ez walatta Dāwīt ‘daughter of David’ in a kama clause: kama Māryām walatta Dāwīt yəʾəti ‘that Mary was the daughter of David’ (Lipiński OLA80 §60.1). w/y alternation in wld/yld explained by secondary diphthong formation (§22.18). PES *wald-/*lVd- ‘son’ (Gez. wald, Tgr. wäd, Tna. wäddi, Amh. ləǯ, Sod. wäld, Har. liǯi, waldi), originally ‘boy’, is derived from PS *wld ‘to bear’ (Kogan 2015, ch. 7 §4.1 no. 16). The t-noun ‘offspring, descendants’ is 3660.
Reflexes24 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadianwalādu OB on [CAD A/1 287], [AHw 1457-1458] 1ildu, līdu 2
- Eblaiticmu-li-tum, mu-li-du /mullittum/ (VE 581; Krebernik 1983, 23)mu-wa-li-tum /muwallidt/ (ARET I; Sanmartín GlOS 2, 351)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic9
- Phoenicianyld [T 124] 1
- Mandaic AramaicYLD (etpe) 1 [DM 192]ydl, ʕdl [DM 189].
- Ugariticyld, wld [Aist 127, 128] 1, 2
- Hebrewyālad (HALOT 411) 1, yäläd 2
- Judaic Aramaicyǝlēd, yǝlīd [Ja 578], [DJPA 240b apud CAL] 1
- Syrian Aramaicʔīlēd [Brock 301] 1, 2
- AramaicOFF NAB yld [HJ 457] 1
- Amoritey-l-d 1: cf. ia-li-id-ᵈIM (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 350)gloss withheld
- PunicNeo-Punic yld 2, in hyld (Krahmalkov 208)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicwld [BK 2 1602] 1, walad- 2
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic wld (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 140)ʾld (pl.) 2, wld (D) 1Dadanitic wld 2 (Al-Jallad 2026, 166)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSAB wld [SD 160; Sabaweb lemma 1360] 1Sab wld, ʾwld 2 (Biella 131)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian10
- Mehriwelēd (coll.) [JM 428]gloss withheld
- Tigrewäldä [LH 430] 1
- East EthiopicSEL WOL ZWY wälädä [LGur 651] 1
- Geezwalada [LGz 613] 1, wald 2
- GurageSOD wällädä [LGur 651] 1
- Jibbaliélɔ́d, élɛ́d [JJ 291]gloss withheld
- Amharicwällädä [K 1489] 1
- Tigrinyawällädä [Bass 637] 1
- Harariwŭläği (OLA80 §15.5, §43.6)wɔläda [LHar 159]gloss withheld
- Argobbawälläda (LGz. 613)
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.