ء و ل

ء و ل

Arabic

Etymology

آل‎ (ʔāl, “family”) is probably the original, because one returns to it and manages it, it being but a variant of أَهْل‎ (ʔahl).

Root

ء و ل • (ʔ-w-l)

1. related to returning
2. related to managing

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: آلَ‎ (ʔāla, “to return”)
  • Verbal noun: أَوْل‎ (ʔawl), إِيَال‎ (ʔiyāl), أَيْلُولَة‎ (ʔaylūla), مَآل‎ (maʔāl)
  • Active participle: آئِل‎ (ʔāʔil)
  • Passive participle: مَأُول‎ (maʔūl), مَؤُول‎ (maʔūl)
• Form II: أَوَّلَ‎ (ʔawwala, “to bid to return; to explain”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأْوِيل‎ (taʔwīl)
  • Active participle: مُؤَوِّل‎ (muʔawwil)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَوَّل‎ (muʔawwal)
• Form V: تَأَوَّلَ‎ (taʔawwala, “to explain”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأَوُّل‎ (taʔawwul)
  • Active participle: مُتَأَوِّل‎ (mutaʔawwil)
  • Passive participle: مُتَأَوَّل‎ (mutaʔawwal)
• Form VIII: اِئْتَالَ‎ (iʔtāla, “to administrate well”), اِيتَالَ‎ (ītāla, “to administrate well”)
  • Verbal noun: اِئْتِيَال‎ (iʔtiyāl), اِيتِيَال‎ (ītiyāl)
  • Active participle: مُؤْتَال‎ (muʔtāl)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْتَال‎ (muʔtāl)

• آل‎ (ʔāl, “family; a piece of wood to prop up”)
• آلَة‎ (ʔāla, “instrument”)
• إِيَالَة‎ (ʔiyāla, “administration”)

References

• Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 90, compares, apart from Old South Arabian 𐩱𐩥𐩡‎ (ʾwl, “to return; to obtain”), as Dillmann, August (1865), “አውል”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 790, Ge'ez አውል (ʾäwl, “vapor, mist”) for rare آل‎ (ʔāl, “vapor”) which may be a Ge'ez loanword instead, the Geʿez a variant of ዐውሎ (ʿäwlo, “whirlwind”), which compares already in Dillmann, August (1865), “ዐውሎ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 994 to Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Jewish Literary Aramaic עלעולא‎ (ʿalʿōlā, “storm wind”), Classical Syriac ܥܠܥܠܐ‎ (ʿalʿālā, “wind storm”), and compares Hebrew אַיִל‎ (ʾáyyil, “ram; leader, chief”), which must be seen as an unrelated Proto-Semitic animal name, *ʔayyal-, and refers to unelucidated “plusieurs évolutions sémantiques”.
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “ء و ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 70–71