# \*lVwVy- 'twist, bend' 1, 'turn' 2, 'accompany, join' 3

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

- Author's gloss: to twist, turn; accompany, join
- SED semet 362
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/l/398_twist_bend_1_turn_2_accompany_join_3.md

## In Linear A

- [DU-RU-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-RU-WI/index.md>) (ḏu-luwwī): the Levite (ethnonymic designation)
- [U-RE-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-RE-WI/index.md>) (ʾūr-lēwī): light of the Levite (compound PN)

## Notes

HALOT 522 sets Hebrew lwh I 'to accompany' with Arabic lawā 'to turn, twist' and Akkadian law/mū 'to surround'.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: lawû (LGz. 322); lamû (lawû) 2 (CAD L 69); lāmû 2 (CAD L 77) (gloss withheld)
- Eblaitic: a-wa-um, lu-wu-a, lu-wu /l-w-y/ 3 (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 19) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: lūlāʾōṯ, liwyā (LGz. 322); lwh I qal, nif. 3 (HALOT 522) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: lwy: lājum, lījum (Gelb AS 21, 24) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: lwā 'to go or come with, accompany' 3 (Payne Smith 236)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: lwy [-i-] 1 (Lane 3015)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: lewō 2; látwi 1 (Rubin 2018 829) (gloss withheld)
- Harsusi: lewō 2
- Jibbali: lwy 2
- Geez: lawaya (LGz. 322); lawawa (LGz. 321) (gloss withheld)
- Tigrinya: läwäyä (LGz. 322)
- Tigre: läwla, läwya (LGz. 322) (gloss withheld)

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