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▪ Accord. to Ehret1989#21 an extension in »concisive« *-ʔ from a 2-rad. pre-protSem root ↗*SL ‘to draw out or off’, preserved in Ar ↗salla ‘to draw out slowly’. Other extensions from the same basis include ↗salaba, ↗salata, ↗salaḥa, ↗salaḫa, ↗saliʕa, ↗salafa, ↗salaqa.
▪ Any relation with other, now obsolete values (see HIST)? – See below, section DISC.

hist

▪ Other meanings of salaʔa, now obsolete, include ^†‘to pluck off the (prickles of a tree)’ (↗^†SLʔ_2), ‘to pay (promptly, quickly, ready money) to s.o.’ (↗^†SLʔ_3), and ^†‘to inflict (many, a hundred) lashes (on s.o.)’ (↗^†SLʔ_4).
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▪ For cognates in the wider sense (accord. to Ehret), see sections CONC and DISC.

disc

▪ Accord. to Ehret1989 #21 an extension in »concisive« * ʔ from a 2-rad. pre-protSem root ↗*SL ‘to draw out or off’, preserved in Ar ↗salla ‘to draw out slowly’. Other extensions from the same basis would include ↗salaba, ↗salata, ↗salaḥa, ↗salaḫa, ↗saliʕa, ↗salafa, ↗salaqa.
▪ The identity of verbal terminology for ‘clarifying butter\oil’ and other, now obsolete values (see HIST) suggests some kind of kinship between the clarification of butter\oil and the other activities designated earlier by salaʔa, such as ‘plucking off the prickles (of a palm-tree)’, ‘inflicting lashes upon s.o.’, and ‘paying ready money to s.o.’. But the exact nature of this relation, if valid, would remain to be explained.
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deriv

►silāʔ, pl. ʔasliʔaẗ, n., clarified butter

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