l s n
15 lemmas · 7 languages
soundAll three consonants are regular• mu'allaqa of Antara ibn Shaddad
Themes:tongue· لِسَان · לָשׁוֹן·4capital·2finland·2lis·2language·2
POS shape:noun·10name·2verb·2adj·1
This root is attested across 7 Semitic languages in our index. Each section below shows representative lemmas; attested means a Wiktionary editor explicitly tagged the root, inferredmeans we derived it mechanically from the word's consonantal skeleton.
Etymology treehow this root diverged from Proto-Semitic through the family
*l-s-nProto-Semitic
East Semitic
Akkadianlišānuml s n— tongue
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Canaanite
Hebrewהֶלְסִינְקִיל ס נ— Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)
Arabic
Arabicلَسْنَل س ن
South Semitic
Old South Arabian
Sabaean𐩡𐩪𐩬𐩡 𐩪 𐩬— tongue
Ethio-Semitic
Ge'ezልሳንለ ሰ ነ— tongue
Amharicልሳንለ ሰ ነ— language
Tigrinyaልሳንለ ሰ ነ— language
Branch structure: Huehnergard (2005), Rubin (2010). The reconstructed Proto-Semitic form is computed on the fly from the cognate set's majority reflex pattern.
Akkadian
akk · 1 lemma- tongueFrom Proto-Semitic *lišān- (“tongue”). Cognate with Arabic لِسَان (lisān) and Biblical Hebrew לָשׁוֹן (lɔšón).
▸ 1 derivation
- relatedbēl lišānim
Sabaean
irregular reflexsab · 1 lemma- tongue
Hebrew
he · 1 lemma- Helsinki (the capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland)
Arabic
ar · 8 lemmas- eloquent, fluentColor or defect adjective from لَسِنَ (lasina).
- plural of لِسَان (lisān)
- tongueFrom Proto-Semitic *lišān-.
▸ 5 derivations
- derivedلِسَانًاlisānan
- derivedلِسَانِيَّاتlisāniyyāt
- derivedلِسَانِيّlisāniyy
- relatedلَسِنَlasina
- relatedلَسَّنَlassana
- plural of لِسَان (lisān)
- the Sunna (Muhammad's way of life, as recorded in the hadiths)From سُنَّة (sunna, “custom, norm”).
- alternative form of بَيْلَسان (baylasān)
Ge'ez
gez · 1 lemma- tongueFrom Proto-Semitic *lišān-.
▸ 1 derivation
- relatedተለሰነtäläsänä
Amharic
am · 2 lemmas- languageFrom Proto-Semitic *lišān-.
- cape (geography)Construct state from ልሳን and ምድር.
Tigrinya
ti · 1 lemma- languageFrom Proto-Semitic *lišān-.