Proto-Semitic root
*ʾawl-
‘precede, be first’ 1, ‘priority, supremacy’ 2, ‘strength, (military) force’ 3
di Mino’s gloss: to be first, precede; supremacy; strength
Record 3783 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor
In Linear A1 entry
Notes
DULAT 128 sets ảwl beside Arab. ʔāla, ʔawila. Not SA144 *ʾwl ‘bring (back)’, the sense ‘return’ of the same Arabic verb.
Reflexes8 languages
East Semitic1
- Eblaiticʾūl 3: ù-lum /ʾūlum/names ù-la-ma /ʾūla=ma/, ù-la-ga-mu, ù-la-ma-du /ʾūla=maʾdu/ (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 53)ʾawal 2: a-wa-lum (= Sum. GABA.GÁL) (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 53)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic3
- Ugariticảwl 2: ỉ<š>ttk l ảwl (KTU 1.12 II 56; DULAT 128)ủl 3 (DULAT 50)gloss withheld
- Hebrew*אול 1, 3 (HALOT 21)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaicאַוְלָא 1 (HALOT 21)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicʾāla, ʾawila 'he preceded, went beforewas first, or foremost' 1ʾawwal ‘first’ (Lane 126)
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic ʾwl 1 (Al-Jallad 2026, 10)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian2
- Mehriḥāwǝláy 1ḥāwīl (Rubin 2018 822, 100)gloss withheld
- Tigreʾawal 1 (WTS 378 apud HALOT 21)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.