▪ As Kogan2015 remarks, the isolated position of Ar ¹
tasallaqa ‘to ascend, mount, climb, scale’ (as also of ClassAr
†salaqa ‘do.’, now obsol.) within Ar »makes one wonder about a possible Aram origin« of these items. If so, ¹
tasallaqa and
†salaqa (as well as
sullāq from which the vb. V may be denom.) almost certainly are borrowed from Aram
sūlqā ‘Ascension’ (so already Fraenkel1886: 277).
▪ Given the Hbr and Aram ‘cognates’, Dolgopolsky2012#300 would reconstruct a CSem *√SLḲ ‘to ascend, climb’ (in his view ancestor not only of Ar ¹
tasallaqa ‘do.’, but also of
†SLQ_18
†salaqa ‘to run’
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and perh. – deglottalization? – even ↗
salaka ‘to travel, go along’), to which he juxtaposes IndEur (NaIE) *
slenk (~ *
sleng ) ‘to creep, crawl, trudge, amble’ (> , e.g., AngSax
slincan ‘to creep’ > nEngl ‘to
slink’, oHGe
slango, nHGe
Schlange ‘snake’; oHGe zuo
slingan ‘to slide away’, mHGe
slingen ‘to crawl along|sich schlängelnd winden, kriechen, schleichen’, etc.
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), all ultimately from a hypothetical Nostr *
c'oLḲ˅ (~ *
c'oLk˅) ‘to advance with effort (to creep, crawl, climb, etc.)’.
▪ Another view is put forward in BDB1906 where the authors interpret values ‘to ascend’ and ‘to scald, burn’ (↗⁴
salaqa) as interdependent, associating Hbr *
śālaq ‘to kindle, burn’, (*Š-stem)
hissîq ~
hiśśîq ‘to make a fire, burn’ with Aram
slaq ‘to ascend’, (*Š-stem) ‘to cause to go up (in flame), offer sacrifice’, Syr
sleq, Palm
slq , Ar
salaqa ‘to ascend’.
▪ In contrast, Kogan2015: 386 #15 points to the scarcity of the Hbr vb. (1sg.impf
ʔässaq ‘I ascend’ is a hapax in the Bible) and the isolated position of ‘ascending’ within Ar and concludes (convincingly, as we think) that both with all likelihood are Aramaisms, i.e., neither the Hbr nor the Ar items can count as genuine cognates, so that Aram SLḲ is in itself isolated within Sem. Speculating about the obscure origin of protAram *SLḲ ‘to go up’ Kogan then »wonders whether a clue to the etymology of this root can be found in its highly peculiar morphological behavior, viz. the unexpected assimilation *
sl- >
ss- [the Hbr 1sg.impf in Ps 139:8 shows
ʔässaq instead of *
ʔäslaq ‘I ascend’], probably betraying the secondary origin of
l . It is, therefore, tempting to follow P. Haupt (1910: 712-3) who compared protAram *
slḳ with Akk
šaḳu ‘to grow high, rise, ascend’ and Ar ↗ŠQY ‘to grow’,
šāqiⁿ ‘high, inaccessible’. If valid, this comparison would imply that the lateral *Ś was split into the combination S L at some early stage of the linguistic history of Aramaic.
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– ProtAram *SLḲ has replaced protSem *ʕLY/W ‘to go up’ [> Ar ↗
ʕalā], which is only marginally preserved in Aram.«
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