# \*badal- 'exchange', 'separate'

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

- Author's gloss: to exchange, substitute; separate
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/b/K0010_exchange_separate.md

## In Linear A

- [PI-TA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-TA-RA/index.md>) (bidāla): trade agents, deputies, a personnel group drawing grain; rivals bitāri 'portions' and the names Paṭir, Batūl

## Notes

GEZ badala 'exchange' is from Ar. badala (LGz. 86). HALOT 110 sets Hebrew bdl 'divide, withdraw' beside Arabic badala 'substitute', II 'change, exchange', and Ugaritic bdlm 'merchants' under one root.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Eblaitic: ba-da-lum, ba-da-lu-um 'royal deputy', not 'merchant' (ELISIR s.v. ba-da-lum)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Aramaic: BDL (Aramaic Root Atlas; CAL s.v. bdl) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root bdl]
- Hebrew: badal 'divide' (BDB 95) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root bdl]
- Ugaritic: bdl (Kogan 2015, ch. 5 §3.2.1.2 no. 4) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root bdl]

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: badala 'changed' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root bdl]

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