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ḤLW/Y حلو/حلي
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ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 23Feb2021
√ḤLW
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“root”
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▪ ḤLW/Y_1 ‘sweet, pleasant to the tongue; pleasant, charming, pretty’ ↗ḥulw, ‘candy, confection, sweetmeats’ ↗ḥalwà
▪ ḤLW/Y_2 ‘adornment, decoration, jewelry’ ↗ḥaly
▪ ḤLW/Y_3 ‘…’ ↗ḥlw/y
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▪ BAH2008: ‘ornament, jewellery, to adorn, to grace; dowry, gratuity; sweet, to sweeten, to enjoy’
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▪ In Sem, the two values ‘to be sweet, pleasant to the tongue’ and ‘to adorn’ exist alongside each other. It is difficult to decide which was the primary, which the secondary one.
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994 (#1225) reconstruct: Sem *ḥ˅law‑/*ḥalaw‑ ‘to be sweet’, based on biconsonantal *ḥal‑, from AfrAs *ḥal‑ ‘to be sweet’.
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▪ DRS 9 (2010) #ḤLW/Y: EmpAram ḥly, BiblAram ḥᵃlā, ḥalī, Syr ḥᵊlī, Mnd ḫlā, Ar ḥalà, ḥaliya ‘être doux, agréable au goût’, SAr ḥalwi: chose sucrée, Mhr ḥōli ‘agréable’, šəḥlū, Jib s̃ḥɛlé ‘trouver agréable’. – Hbr ḥᵃlī ‘collier, parure’, Ar ḥaly ‘ornement, parure, bijou’, ḥalà(y) ‘orner de pierreries, de bijoux’. – Hbr māḥᵃlat: terme technique de musique, Ar muḥallī ‘musicien’, Gz ḥalaya, Te ḥala, Amh ḥalläyä ‘chanter’; Tña ḥaläyä ‘chant’, Amh maḥlet ‘hymne’. – Ar ḥalà ‘donner qc à qn’, ḥilwān ‘cadeau, don’, Sab Min ḥly ‘don’, Soq ḥole ‘donner’; Gz ʔaḥlaya, ʔaḥallaya ‘donner un pot-de-vin’, ḥəlyān ‘pot-de-vin, don, récompense’.
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994 (#1225): No cognates given for Sem, but in WCh (Hs gállā́ ‘sweet juice sucked from the abdomen of a hornet’), allí ‘sweet’ in 1 CCh lang, and hal-am‑ ‘sweet’ in 1 Rift idiom.
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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994 (#1225) reconstruct protSem *ḥalaw‑/*ḥ˅law‑ ‘to be sweet’, protWCh *ḥal‑ (StarLing *ḥall‑) (deverb. n.) ‘sweet juice sucked from the abdomen of a hornet’ (based on Hs), protCCh *χal‑ (StarLing *Hal‑) ‘sweet’ (based on 1 CCh item), and protRift *hal‑ ‘sweet’ (based on 1 Rift item; Starling: Ø).
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▪ Engl halvah ↗ḥalwà.
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