September (Syr., Leb., Ir., Jord.) – WehrCowan1979.
The word which today can be considered part of the MSA vocabulary, is originally a word from the SyrAr dialect that entered the Language via Aram ʔelūlā, lHbr ʔälûl, and ultimately goes back to Akk elūlu, name of a month (Nişanyan2011: ‘harvest season’). This latter is probably connected to the vb. Akk elēlu (< *ḥalālum) ‘to be(come) clean, pure, holy’ which belongs to the Sem root *ḤLL, cf. Ar ↗ḤLː (ḤLL), ↗ḥalla (ḥall), ↗ḥalla (ḥill), ↗ḥalla (ḥull).
▪ Zimmern1914: from SyrAr ʔaylūl, from Aram ʔelūlā, lHbr ʔälûl, from Akk elūlu, name of a month (Nişanyan2011: ‘harvest season’). ▪ Huehnergard2011: Akk elūlu is probably connected to the vb. Akk elēlu (< *ḥalālum) ‘to be(come) clean, pure, holy’ which belongs to the Sem root *ḤLL.