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▪ ⁴salaqa ‘to scald (plants)’ is not only said of excessive heat (as WehrCowan1976 has it), but (historically, at least) also of strong cold, as in salaqa ’l-bardᵘ ’l-nabātᵃ ‘the cold nipped, shrunk, shrivelled, or blasted, the herbage’ (Lane iv 1872). The meaning seems to be fig. use of ↗³salaqa ‘to boil, cook in boiling water’.
▪ But does it perh. also reflect a relation to ‘frying, roasting’, as Dolgopolsky’s hypothesis for the etymology of ³salaqa proposes? See below, section DISC.
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▪ ↗³salaqa.
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▪ Accord. to Dolgopolsky2012#2053, CSem *ŠLḲ ‘to cook, broil, boil’ is akin to (and extension from?) WSem *C̣LY (*-c̣lay-) ‘to roast’ (> Ar ↗ṣalà ‘to roast, broil, fry’, ṣaliya ‘to burn, be exposed to the blaze of s.th.’), with cognates also in Berb and Cush, ultimately from a hypothetical Nostr *s̄i˻ʔ˼L˅ ‘to roast, fry, cook’. But this suggestion is doubtful, due to phonological reasons, as initial *ṣ rarely transforms into *š (*s) and Dolgopolsky stands alone with his assumption of a WSem *C̣ as the basis for later sound shifts.
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For other values of the root, cf. ↗¹salaqa, ↗²salaqa, ↗³salaqa, ↗⁵salaqa, ↗tasallaqa, ↗sullāq, ↗salq, ↗¹salīqaẗ, ↗²salīqaẗ, ↗salaqūn and ↗salūqī as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√SLQ.

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