# \*wld 'to bear, give birth to' 1, 'boy, child' 2

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: to give birth, beget; child, offspring
- SED semet 2311
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/add28e9473c07931be80fd0b364181739fc5519a/wiki/semitic-roots/w/2109_to_bear_give_birth_to_1_boy_child_2.md

## In Linear A

- [WI-RA-RE-MI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/WI-RA-RE-MI-TE/index.md>) (Wild-rēmti): Calf of the Wild Cow (personal name, compound; wild 'young one' + rēmtu 'wild cow')

## 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.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: walādu OB on [CAD A/1 287], [AHw 1457-1458] 1; ildu, līdu 2
- Eblaitic: mu-li-tum, mu-li-du /mullittum/ (VE 581; Krebernik 1983, 23); mu-wa-li-tum /muwallidt/ (ARET I; Sanmartín GlOS 2, 351) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Phoenician: yld [T 124] 1
- Mandaic Aramaic: YLD (etpe) 1 [DM 192]; ydl, ʕdl [DM 189].
- Ugaritic: yld, wld [Aist 127, 128] 1, 2
- Hebrew: yālad (HALOT 411) 1, yäläd 2
- Judaic Aramaic: yǝlēd, yǝlīd [Ja 578], [DJPA 240b apud CAL] 1
- Syrian Aramaic: ʔīlēd [Brock 301] 1, 2
- Aramaic: OFF NAB yld [HJ 457] 1
- Amorite: y-l-d 1: cf. ia-li-id-ᵈIM (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 350) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: Neo-Punic yld 2, in hyld (Krahmalkov 208) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: wld [BK 2 1602] 1, walad- 2
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic wld (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 140); ʾld (pl.) 2, wld (D) 1; Dadanitic wld 2 (Al-Jallad 2026, 166) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: SAB wld [SD 160; Sabaweb lemma 1360] 1; Sab wld, ʾwld 2 (Biella 131) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: welēd (coll.) [JM 428] (gloss withheld)
- Tigre: wäldä [LH 430] 1
- East Ethiopic: SEL WOL ZWY wälädä [LGur 651] 1
- Geez: walada [LGz 613] 1, wald 2
- Gurage: SOD wällädä [LGur 651] 1
- Jibbali: élɔ́d, élɛ́d [JJ 291] (gloss withheld)
- Amharic: wällädä [K 1489] 1
- Tigrinya: wällädä [Bass 637] 1
- Harari: wŭläği (OLA80 §15.5, §43.6); wɔläda [LHar 159] (gloss withheld)
- Argobba: wälläda (LGz. 613)

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