Proto-Semitic root
*lVwVy-
‘twist, bend’ 1, ‘turn’ 2, ‘accompany, join’ 3
di Mino’s gloss: to twist, turn; accompany, join
Record 398 ↗ · SED semet 362 · Basis: SED, meaning edited
In Linear A2 entries
Notes
HALOT 522 sets Hebrew lwh I ‘to accompany’ with Arabic lawā ‘to turn, twist’ and Akkadian law/mū ‘to surround’.
Reflexes12 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadianlawû (LGz. 322)lamû (lawû) 2 (CAD L 69)lāmû 2 (CAD L 77)gloss withheld
- Eblaitica-wa-um, lu-wu-a, lu-wu /l-w-y/ 3 (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 19)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic3
- Hebrewlūlāʾōṯ, liwyā (LGz. 322)lwh I qal, nif. 3 (HALOT 522)gloss withheld
- Amoritelwy: lājum, lījum (Gelb AS 21, 24)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaiclwā ‘to go or come with, accompany’ 3 (Payne Smith 236)
Arabic1
- Arabiclwy [-i-] 1 (Lane 3015)
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian6
- Mehrilewō 2látwi 1 (Rubin 2018 829)gloss withheld
- Harsusilewō 2
- Jibbalilwy 2
- Geezlawaya (LGz. 322)lawawa (LGz. 321)gloss withheld
- Tigrinyaläwäyä (LGz. 322)
- Tigreläwla, läwya (LGz. 322)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.