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▪ Etymology obscure. Any relation to any of the main values attached to the root √QLː (QLL), like *‘small, few, insignificant’ (↗¹qalla), *‘to lift, carry’ (↗²qalla), and *‘highest point, summit (↗¹qullaẗ), to rise, separate o.s., seek to stand out’ (↗ĭstaqalla)?
▪ In ClassAr, form X (↗ĭstaqalla) can, among others, also take the value ^†ʻto become angry; to seize s.o. (fear)’, which seems to be based on ↗¹qullaẗ ʻhighest point, top’, expressing (fig.) usage in the sense of *ʻto seek to overwhelm, sit on top of, overcome s.o.’. So, perh., qill ʻtremor’ is a secondary development, a deverbal back-formation based on ĭstaqalla in the mentioned sense? A denom. derivation of form X ^†ʻto become angry; to seize s.o. (fear)’ from qill ʻtremor’ would certainly reflect a more usual practice, but given that qill does not seem to have any cognates in Sem nor produced any derivations in Ar, a back-formation from ĭstaqalla is perh. not completely unconceivable.
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hist

▪ If qill is a back-formation from ĭstaqalla, then the value is attested already very early (via the form X vb.): DHDA gives ĭstaqallat-hu ’l-raʕdaẗ ʻhe was taken by rage, rage came over him’ as the earliest attestation (678 CE) in this sense (allegedly in the words of ʕĀʔišaẗ bt. Abū Bakr as transmitted in A. b. Ḥanbal’s Musnad). For ClassAr cf. also Kazimirski1860: ʻ[…] 10 être saisi d’un tremblement; 11 se mettre en colère; 12 saisir qn (se dit d’un tremblement); […]’, and Bustānī1869: ‘to be angry’ (ġaḍiba); ‘to take hold of s.o. (fear)’. Wahrmund II 1887 has also qill, pl. qilal, ‘Zittern das Einen ergreift’; Lane (Suppl. 1893) adds ^†(pass.) ŭstuqilla ġaḍaban ʻto become affected with a tremor\trembling by anger’. In addition, Lane Suppl. 1893 lists a form IV vb., ^†ʔaqalla-hu ’l-ġaḍab ʻanger disquieted\flurried him’.
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cogn

▪ ? – See perh. ↗ĭstaqalla (< ↗¹qullaẗ?)
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disc

▪ See above, section CONC.
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west

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deriv

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗¹qalla, ↗²qalla, ↗ĭstaqalla (and ↗ĭstiqlāl), ↗qallaẗ, ↗¹qullaẗ, ↗²qullaẗ, ↗³qullaẗ, ↗¹qilliyyaẗ, and ↗²qilliyyaẗ, as well as, for the whole picture, root entry ↗√QLː (QLL).

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