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▪ The vb. can be assumed rather safely to be ComSem. – Militarev&Stolbova2007 reconstruct Sem *š˅ʔal‑ ‘to ask’; Dolgopolsky2012 #2052 posits Sem *√ŠʔL ‘to ask (a question), ask for’, from Nostr ²*s̄˹Eʔ˺æw˹ü˺L˅ ‘to look for, search, ask’.
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hist

eC7 more than 120 occurrences in the Q, all meaning ‘to ask, question, interrogate, inquire, query, seek clarification, etc; to beg; (pass.) to be taken to task, called to account’.

cogn

▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘to ask’) Akk išʔal, Hbr šʔl e (a), Syr šel, Gz sʔl a (a).
▪ Zammit2002: Akk šālu, šaʔālu, Ug šʔal, Phn šʔl, Pun [y]sl[ym] ‘to ask’, Hbr šāʔal ‘to ask, inquire’, BiblAram šᵉʔēl ‘to ask’, Syr šeʔl ‘to ask, interrogate, ask counsel’, SAr sʔl ‘to ask, request, demand, lay claim’, Gz saʔala ‘rogare; petere, poscere, postulare, expetere’.
▪ Dolgopolsky2012 #2052: Akk šaʔālu ~ šâlu ‘to ask (a question), inquire’, Hbr, Pun, TargAram, JudPal, JEA, Syr, SamAram, Mnd √ŠʔL, Ar, Gz √SʔL, Qat √ŠʔL ‘to ask’. Deriv.: Sab Min Qat mšʔl ‘oracle’; epigrHbr, JudAram, Syr, Mnd √ŠʔL G, Ar, Gz saʔala, səʔla, Sab √ŠʔL ‘ask for, beg, plead’, Sab Min √ŠʔL ‘to ask, seek, require’, Jib šɛ̄l (sbjn. yšɔ̄l) ‘to demand payment for a dept’, Soq hoʔol ‘do., to borrow’. – Outside Sem: [Berb] Tsh siggəl (3s pf. isuggʷəl) ‘to look for’, ? Ahg səssəǵǵəl ‘chercher’, as well as Mz səwwəl, yətsewwəl ‘to ask (a question)’ (borr. < Ar √SʔL?).
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disc

▪ StarLing2007 reconstructs Sem *š˅ʔal‑ ‘to ask’ (only on the evidence of Ar).
▪ In form V, the vb. has taken the specialized meaning of ‘to beg’, attested already in the Q, overlapping with ↗tasawwala.
▪ Dolgopolsky2012#2052 reconstructs Sem *√ŠʔL ‘to ask (a question), ask for’ and (with due caution) Berb *√SWL ‘to look for’, all from a hypothetical Nostr ²*s̄˹Eʔ˺æw˹ü˺L˅ ‘to look for, search, ask’.
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west

▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Saul, from Hbr šāʔûl ‘asked, requested’, PP of šāʔal ‘to ask’, cognate of Ar saʔala.

deriv

► sāʔala, vb. III, to ask, question, interrogate; to call s.o. to account:…
► ʔasʔala, vb. IV: ʔasʔalahū suʔlahū to fulfill s.o.’s wish, comply with s.o.’s request:…
► tasaʔʔala, and tasawwala, vb. V, to beg:…
► ^BP#1764tasāʔala, vb. VI, to ask; to ask o.s., wonder, ponder; to ask one another:…

► suʔl, n., demand, request, wish:…
► suʔlaẗ, n.f., demand, request, wish: n.un., from suʔl.
► ^BP#267suʔāl, pl. ʔasʔilaẗ, n., question; request; inquiry; demand, claim: lexicalized vn. I.
► saʔʔāl, adj., given to asking questions, inquisitive, curious: ints.
► saʔūl, adj., given to asking questions, inquisitive, curious: ints.
► ^BP#738masʔalaẗ, pl. masāʔilᵘ, n., question; issue, problem; affair, matter, case; request: lexicalized vn. I.
► musāʔalaẗ, n.f., questioning, interrogation: vn. III.
► tasawwul, n., begging, beggary: vn. V.
► ^BP#2176tasāʔul, pl. ‑āt, n., questions, doubts; self-questioning: vn. VI.
► ^BP#4273sāʔil, pl. ‑ūn, suʔʔāl, saʔalaẗ, adj., asking: PA I; n., questioner; petitioner; beggar: nominalized PA I.
► ^BP#354masʔūl, adj. official; responsible, answerable, accountable: PP I; pl. al-masʔūlūn, n., the bearers of responsibility; the functionaries: nominalized PP I.
► C ^BP#794masʔūliyyaẗ, pl. ‑āt, n., responsibility, duty: abstr. in ‑iyyaẗ, from masʔūl.
► mutasawwil, n., beggar: nominalized PA V.
► ^BP#4116mutasāʔil, adj., asking o.s., wondering: PA VI.

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