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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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¹ḫāl خال , pl. ʔaḫwāl, huʔūl, ḫuʔūlaẗ 
ID 272 • Sw – • BP 3188 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḪWL 
n. 
1 (maternal) uncle – WehrCowan1976. – 2 (pl. ḫīlān) ↗²ḫāl (√ḪYL). 
▪ Kogan2011: from protWSem *ḫāl‑ ‘maternal uncle’.
▪ DRS does not exclude the possibility that ʻmaternal uncle’, ¹ḫāl, may be akin somehow to the complex of ʻadministring’, or granting the right\power to administer, ↗ḫawal ʻchattels, property (livestock, slaves); servants’, so that either the former is dependent on the latter (the maternal uncle as *ʻowner\master of property, servants, slaves, etc.’), or vice versa (livestock and other property as *ʻs.th. under the control\administration of a maternal uncle’).
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▪ DRS 10 (2012) #ḪWL-1 Akk ḫāl‑, Palm ḥl ‘oncle maternel’, Nab *ḥlh ‘tante’, Syr ḥālā, Ar ḫāl, Ṣaf ḫl, Mhr Ḥrs ḫayl, Jib ḥiź, Soq ḥel (Kogan2011: ḥalēle) ‘oncle maternel’. – ?2 Ar ḫāla ‘garder, gérer, administrer’, ḫawal ‘biens, avoir’; Min ḫwl ‘personne autorisée’, Qat šḫl ‘diriger, administrer’, ?MġrAr ḫāl ‘octroyer, assigner’. -3-7 […].
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▪ See above, section CONCISE.
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► BP#2962ḫālaẗ, pl. ‑āt, n.f., (maternal) aunt
► ḫuʔūlaẗ, n.f., relationship of the maternal uncle

For other values of the root, cf. ↗²ḫāl, ↗ḫawal, ↗ḫawlī, and ↗ḫawwala, as well as, for the whole picture, root entries ↗√ḪWL and ↗√ḪYL. 
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