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³riǧl رِجْل
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ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 3Apr2023
√RǦL
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1 ↗¹riǧl; 2 ↗²riǧl; 3 n., common purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.; bot.) (EgAr riglaẗ) – WehrCowan1976
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▪ The value ‘common purslane’ of the word riǧl (which otherwise can mean ‘foot’ and ‘swarm, esp. of locusts’, see ↗¹riǧl and ↗²riǧl) is prob. due to the plant’s resemblance with †‘curly (hair)’ (↗†RǦL_9), which in its turn seems to have developed from ↗†RǦL_8 *‘to be set free and run around uncontrollably (suckling, foal)’, ultimately from ↗¹riǧl ‘foot’.
▪ With this underlying idea, ³riǧl ‘common purslane’ is akin to ↗²riǧl ‘swarm (esp. of locusts)’, ↗raǧǧala ‘to let (hair) fall down freely (> to comb > to comfort)’, as well as ↗ĭrtaǧala ‘to improvise, extemporize’ and other, now extinct values.
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▪ No immediate cognates in Sem or outside, but ultimately based on ↗¹riǧl.
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗¹riǧl, ↗²riǧl, ↗raǧul (with ↗ruǧūlaẗ), ↗raǧǧala, ↗ĭrtaǧala, and ↗mirǧal, as well as, for the whole picture, root entry ↗√RǦL.
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