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▪ Prob. developed from a basic *‘to dream’ along the line *‘dream, to dream’ (↗ḥulm) > ‘to have wet dreams, nightly pollutions’ > ‘sexual maturity, puberty, to attain puberty’ (↗ḥulum).
▪ Kogan2015 reconstructs protWSem *ḥlm ‘to dream’ (SED I #25ᵥ) (82 #21) and protCSem *ḥlm ‘to be mature, fat, vigorous’ (190 #25).
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▪ Usually seen as a from VIII vb. derived from ↗ḥulum ‘puberty’ and/or ↗ḥulm ‘dream’. For the common view is that ‘puberty’ is the age where men start to have ‘wet dreams, nightly pollutions’. Cf. however a different view in DRS:
▪ DRS 9 (2010)#ḤLM–1 Hbr ḥālam, Aram ḥᵃlam, Syr ḥᵊlmā, Ar ḥalama, Soq ḥlm, Mhr Ḥrs ḥáyləm, Jib ḥélm, Gz Te ḥalma, Tña ḥalama, Amh allämä ‘rêver’; Ug ḥlm, Phn ḥlm, Hbr ḥalōm, oEmpAram ḥlm, JP Syr ḥelmā, Sab ḥlm, Mhr ḥāləm, ḥām, Ḥrs ḥāləm, Jib ḥum ‘rêve’; Gz ḥəlm, Amh ʔəlm ‘songe’; Sab ḥlmt ‘prophétesse, voyante’; Ar ĭḥtalama, Te täḥallämä, Mhr əḥtəlūm, Jib aḥtélím ‘avoir une pollution nocture’, Sab mḥtlm ‘qui a eu une pollution nocture’. – ▪ DRS 9 (2010)#ḤLM–2 Ug ḥlm, Hbr *ḥālam ‘être fort (jeune animal)’, hęḥᵊlīm ‘rendre bien portant’, Syr ḥᵉlīmā ‘sain, en bonne santé’, Ar ĭḥtalama ‘arriver à l’âge de puberté’, ḥalīm ‘gras (animal)’; ? Mhr ḥəlūm ‘enfler (blessure)’; – Ar ḥaluma ‘être doux, indulgent, intelligent’, ḥilm ‘indulgence, tranquillité’.

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▪ The reason why ĭḥtalama has an entry in its own right in EtymArab is the fact that DRS attaches to the vb. two values that not necessarily are connected: ‘to have nightly pollutions’ (now obsolete) and ‘to attain sexual maturity, reach the age of puberty’. While ‘nightly pollutions’, accord. to DRS, is ‘to have wet dreams’ and, thus, a specialisation of ‘to dream’ (↗ḥulm), ‘sexual maturity, puberty’ is seen to be cognate to Hbr and Aram words designating physical ‘strength, healthiness’ and the ability to bear loads. On reaching maturity and the ability to ‘bear’ is based, accord. to DRS, also the notion of ‘mildness, indulgence, patience; understanding, intelligence, reason’ (↗ḥilm).

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► ḥulum, n., sexual maturity, puberty: not a derivative but rather the basis on which the vb. VIII is dependent; but cf. DISC above.

► muḥtalim, adj., sexually mature, pubescent, marriageable: PA VIII.

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