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▪ Either is ḫawal from the obs. vb. I, ^†ḫāla ʻto manage (a business etc.), take care (ʕalà of)’ (Hava1899), property etc. being interpreted as *ʻs.th. under the authority\control of s.o.’, or it is the other way round and the vb. I is denom. from ḫawal, in which case ʻmanaging a business etc.’ originally would be ʻadministering chattels, property, etc.’.
▪ If the ʻmaternal uncle’, ↗¹ḫāl, should be akin to ḫawal (as is considered possible in DRS), the granting of authority could also be interpreted as *ʻmaking s.o. the “uncle” of livestock, slaves, servants, etc., i.e., its/their master’.
▪ It is not clear why DRS treats [v1-2] ʻchattels, property’, esp., that consisting in ʻlivestock and slaves; servants’ (their #ḪWL-2, see below, section COGN) as distinct from [v3-4] ʻdancer; effeminate person, sissy’ (their #ḪWL-3), while the latter meaning (an Arabic idiosyncrasy!) quite obviously seems to be a special – derogatory – use of the former: servants and slaves would be considered weak, their masters (“uncles”?) having the power to “let them dance”. Dancing slaves may also have been part of the owner’s property.
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▪ DRS 10 (2012) #ḪWL-1 Akk ḫāl‑, Palm ḥl ‘oncle maternel’, Nab *ḥlh ‘tante’, Syr ḥālā, Ar ḫāl, Ṣaf ḫl, Mhr Ḥrs ḫayl, Jib ḥiź, Soq ḥel (Kogan2011: ḥalēle) ‘oncle maternel’. – ?2 Ar ḫāla ‘garder, gérer, administrer’, ḫawal ‘biens, avoir’; Min ḫwl ‘personne autorisée’, Qat šḫl ‘diriger, administrer’, ?MġrAr ḫāl ‘octroyer, assigner’. -3 Ar ḫuwāl ‘jeune garçon danseur’, EgAr ḫawal ‘danseur, efféminé, homosexuel passif’, SudAr ḫawal: terme de mépris par lequel on traite l’homme qui manque de virilité; ḫawl d’un homme: sa domesticité. -4-7 […].
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▪ See above, section CONCISE.
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► ḫawwala, vb. II, to grant, accord, give, concede (to s.o. s.th., also li‑; esp., the right, the power to do s.th.), bestow, confer (upon s.o. s.th., also li‑), vest, endow (s.o. with s.th., also li‑): D-stem, caus., from the obs. vb. I, ^†ḫāla ʻto manage (a business etc.), take care (ʕalà of)’.

► ḫawlī, n., 1 supervisor, overseer (of a plantation); 2 gardener: nisba formation, perh. shortened from *ḫawalī ʻin charge of property, etc.’.
► muḫawwal, adj., authorized (bi‑ to): PP II.

For other values of the root, cf. ↗¹ḫāl and ↗²ḫāl as well as, for the whole picture, root entries ↗√ḪWL and ↗√ḪYL.

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