1a to connect, join, unite, combine, link, interlock (bi‑ s.th. with), attach (bi‑ s.th. to); b to establish (ṣilaẗan, a contact, a connection; a relation bayna s.th. wa‑… wa‑… between… and…); to bring into relation); 2 to give (bi‑ s.o. s.th.), bestow, confer (bi‑ upon s.o. s.th.), award (bi‑ to s.o. s.th.); – (wuṣūl) 3a to arrive (ʔilà or at a place); b to come to s.o.’s (ʔilà) hands; c to reach (ʔilà or s.o., s.th.); d to come, get (ʔilà or s.th., s.o. to); e to reach (ʔilà or an amount), amount to (ʔilà or s.th.); f to enter (ʔilà a phase); g to get (bi‑ ʔilà s.o. to or to the point where) – WehrCowan1979.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl muslin, from Ar ↗mawṣil ‘place of joining’, from ↗waṣala ‘to join’.
►waṣala-nī ḫiṭāb, expr., I have received a letter ►waṣala-hū ’l-ḫabar, expr., he received the news ►yaṣilu hāḏā ʔilà ḥadd kāḏā, expr., this gets to the point where… ►waṣala ʔilà ’l-ṣafḥaẗ al-ḥāsimaẗ, vb., to enter the decisive phase►
▪ WṢY_1 ‘...’ ↗... ▪ WṢY_2 ‘...’ ↗... ▪ WṢY_3 ‘...’ ↗...♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘thick, intertwined plants; a will, instruction; to bequeath, urge; to impress upon s.o., relate to s.o.; to obligate; to join together’
▪ From CSem *√WṢY, var. of *√¹ṢWY, ‘to command, order’ – Huehnergard2011. ▪ …