Proto-Semitic root
*ʾil-
‘god, deity; El (supreme god)’
di Mino’s gloss: god, goddess; El
Record 2719 ↗ · SED semet 1431 · Basis: SED, meaning edited
In Linear A4 entries
Reflexes16 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadianilu (CAD I/J 91)gloss withheld
- Eblaiticab-da-rí-ì, cf. li-sa-ne-lum/lu-um /ʾil/ (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 19)DN Il, absent from the offering lists: names en-na-il, i-ti-il, a-ba-il, a-da-il, iš-ra-il, iš-má-il, iš-ma-ì-lum, mi-kà-il (Antalík 1998, 33)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic10
- Ugariticil (DULAT 46)gloss withheld
- Phoenicianʔl (Krahmalkov 49)ʾlm (Krahmalkov 52)gloss withheld
- Hebrewʔēl (HALOT 48)gloss withheld
- Amoriteʾilum, ʾillum, ʾelum, ʾiltum, ʾilī (Gelb AS 21, 14)ʾalla, ʾila, ʾilānu (Buck 2019, 323)ʾil: i-la-el/DINGIR, el=, e-lV=e-lV= (Ur III) (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 19)gloss withheld
- Punicʾl, ʿl (T 16)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicʔīl ‘God’ (Payne Smith 13)ʔalāh 'Goda false god' (Payne Smith 17)
- AramaicOAram. ʾlh (Kogan 2015, ch. 3 §5.2 no. 2, fn. 503)gloss withheld
- Modern AramaicTur. aloho (RW 32 apud SEDonline 1115)gloss withheld
- Emari-la-i, i-la-ú /ʾilāhū/ (Pentiuc 2001, 82–83)gloss withheld
- Biblical Aramaicʔĕlāh (HALOT 52–53)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicʔilāh- ‘god’ (BK 1, 48)
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic ʾlh (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 43)Dadanitic ʾlhHismaic ʾlhThamudic B ʾlh (Al-Jallad 2026, 5)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSab ʾl, ʾlt (SD 5; Biella 15; Sabaweb lemmas 1539, 7528)ʾlh(n) (Biella 17)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian1
- Mehriʔāl (Lonnet 2005:206 apud SEDonline 1116)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.