Reconstruction:Proto-West Semitic/pataw-

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Reconstruction:Proto-West Semitic/pataw-

This Proto-West Semitic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Semitic

Etymology

From a biconsonantal root extended by reduplication in Proto-West Semitic *patat- (“to make disintegrate, to cut piecemeal”) (Arabic ف ت ت‎ (f t t)), however also seen in Proto-Semitic *pataḥ- (“to open”), *pataq- (“to tear up”) reconstructable from Akkadian.

Verb

*pataw-

1. to perforate, to hole, to spread
2. (figuratively) to entice, to seduce, to snooker, to entangle or ensnare

Descendants

• Northwest Semitic:
  • Aramaic:
    • Palestinian and Classical Syriac: ܦܬܝ‎ (“to enlarge, to open wide”, paʿʿel)
  • Hebrew: פִּתָּה‎ (pittā, “to entice, to seduce”, piʿʿel), פֶתִי‎ (pəṯī, “dupe; gullible person”)
    • → Jewish Literary Aramaic, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: פתי‎ (“to entice, to seduce”, paʿʿel)
  • Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎚𐎊 (pty, “to seduce; to copulate”)
• ⇒ Arabic: فَتًى‎ (fatan, “youngster”)
• ⇒ Safaitic: 𐪐𐪉𐪚‎ (fty /patay/, “slave”)
• Ethiopian Semitic:
  • North Ethiopian Semitic:
    • Ge'ez: ፈተወ (fätäwä), ፈትወ (fätwä, “to love, to desire”)
    • Tigre: ፈታ (fäta, “to love, to desire”)
    • Tigrinya: ፈተወ (fätäwä, “to love, to desire”)

Further reading

• “pty”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, with many farther related derivations from idea of “broadness”
• “pty²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–