disc▪ Accord. to Dolgopolsky2012#2053, CSem *ŠLḲ ‘to cook, broil, boil’ is akin to (and extension from?) WSem *C̣LY (*-c̣lay-) ‘to roast’ (> Ar ↗ṣalà ‘to roast, broil, fry’, ṣaliya ‘to burn, be exposed to the blaze of s.th.’), with cognates also in Berb and Cush, ultimately from a hypothetical Nostr *s̄i˻ʔ˼L˅ ‘to roast, fry, cook’. But this suggestion is doubtful, due to phonological reasons, as initial *ṣ rarely transforms into *š (*s) and Dolgopolsky stands alone with his assumption of a WSem *C̣ as the basis for later sound shifts.
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