# \*raḫil- 'ewe'

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

- Author's gloss: ewe, lamb
- SED semet 2506
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/r/2267_ewe.md

## In Linear A

- [RA-\*314-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RA-*314-RA/index.md>) (Raḥil): personal name, 'Ewe' (√r-ḥ-l), as Hebrew Rāḥēl; rival Egyptian Ḥr-Rꜥ 'Horus-Ra'

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: laḫru OAkk. on [CAD l 42], [AHw. 528] (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: rāḥēl (HALOT 1216) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: rǝḥēlā, raḥălā [Ja. 1467], rḥyl, det. räḥlā, ryḥlh [DJPA 520b apud CAL]. (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: D.-Alla rḥl [HJ 1068] (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: riḫl(at)- 'female lamb' [BK 1 841], [Fr. II 135], [Lane 1059], [LA XI 280]
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic rḫlt (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 116) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Soqotri: réḥloh [LS 397]. (gloss withheld)

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