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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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sulāmà سُلامَى , pl. sulāmayāt 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√SLM 
n. 
1 phalanx, digital bone (of the hand or foot) – WehrCowan1979. – 2 For another meaning, now obsolete, cf. †SLM_27 s.v. ↗SLM. 
▪ Given that a semantic relation between the main values that are known in Sem for the root ↗SLM can hardly be found, the etymology of sulāmà remains obscure so far.
▪ Interestingly enough, BAH2008 group this value (SLM_12 s.v. ↗SLM) together with SLM_3 ‘to receive’ and ‘to stroke’ (cf. †SLM_25). This does not seem to be very likely, but should it be correct then ‘to receive’ and ‘to stroke’ would probably have to be thought as denominative from sulāmà. Such derivations, however, do not contribute to solve the etymology of sulāmà itself.
▪ Should one consider a transfer of meaning from ↗salam_2 ‘(kind of) acacia’ to the digital bones that look like small twigs of a tree? Perhaps also the other obsolete terms of plants mentioned s.v. salam_2 have to be studied as possible origin. 
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