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r g l

27 lemmas · 8 languages
soundAll three consonants are regularT Gen.24.32
Themes:foot· قَدَم · רֶגֶל·8leg·4spy·2usual·2become·2
POS shape:noun·19verb·6adj·1adv·1

This root is attested across 8 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

*r-g-lProto-Semitic
East Semitic
Akkadianergilumr g l— a type of orthopteran, possibly the bush-cricket
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Canaanite
Hebrewרֶגֶלר ג ל— foot, leg
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicרגלאר ג ל— leg, foot
Syriacܪܓܠܐܪ ܓ ܠ— leg, foot
Assyrian NAܪܸܓ݂ܠܵܐܪ ܓ ܠ— leg, foot
Turoyoܪܓܠܐܪ ܓ ܠ— foot
Arabic
Arabicتَرَجَّلَر ج ل— to go on foot, to walk
South Semitic
Old South Arabian
Sabaean𐩧𐩴𐩡𐩧 𐩴 𐩡— foot

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 · 2 lemmas
  • nouninferredWiktionary ↗
    a type of orthopteran, possibly the bush-cricket
    From Proto-Semitic *ḥargil- (“locust”). Cognate with Arabic حَرْجَل (ḥarjal) and Biblical Hebrew חַרְגּוֹל (ḥargól).
  • nouninferredWiktionary ↗
    alternative spelling of ergilum

Sabaean

irregular reflexsab · 1 lemma

Imperial Aramaic

arc · 1 lemma
  • nouninferred𐡀 tg. Onk. Exod 21:24Wiktionary ↗
    leg, foot
    From Proto-Semitic *rigl-.

Classical Syriac

syc · 2 lemmas
  • nouninferredWiktionary ↗
    leg, foot
    From Proto-Semitic *rigl-. Compare Arabic رِجْل (rijl) and Hebrew רֶגֶל (réḡel).
  • nouninferredWiktionary ↗
    kind of snake
    From Ancient Greek ἀργόλας (argólas).

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

aii · 4 lemmas
  • riḡlānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    leg, foot
    Learned borrowing from Classical Syriac, from Aramaic רֵגְלָא (reḡlā), from Proto-Semitic *rigl-; compare Turoyo ܪܱܓ݂ܠܐ (räġlo), Arabic رِجْل (rijl), Hebrew רֶגֶל (régel), and Akkadian 𒊑𒅅𒇻 (riglum). Historically displaced by ܥܲܩܠܵܐ (ˁaqlā).
    ▸ 1 derivation
  • raggālānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    footman, foot soldier
    Learned borrowing from Classical Syriac, from Aramaic רֵגְלָא (reḡlā), from Proto-Semitic *rigl-; compare Turoyo ܪܱܓ݂ܠܐ (räġlo), Arabic رِجْل (rijl), Hebrew רֶגֶל (régel), and Akkadian 𒊑𒅅𒇻 (riglum). Historically displaced by ܥܲܩܠܵܐ (ˁaqlā).
  • mtargilverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to trip
    From a Gt form ܡܸܬ݂ܪܓܸܠ (miṯrgil), denominal of the archaic noun ܪܸܓ݂ܠܵܐ (riḡlā, “foot”).
  • rāḡōlānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    valley
    Compare Classical Syriac ܪܓ݂ܘܼܠܵܐ (rḡūlā).
    ▸ 3 derivations

Hebrew

he · 8 lemmas

Arabic

ar · 8 lemmas
  • tarajjalaverbattested☪︎ Q.4:1Wiktionary ↗
    to go on foot, to walk
  • rājilnounattested☪︎ Q.4:1Wiktionary ↗
    pedestrian
    Derived from the active participle of رَجِلَ (rajila, “to go on foot”), from the root ر ج ل (r j l); compare رِجْل (rijl, “foot, leg”).
  • rujlanounattested☪︎ Q.4:1Wiktionary ↗
    manhood
  • rijlanounattested☪︎ Q.4:1Wiktionary ↗
    alternative form of رِجْل (rijl, “common purslane”)
  • rajlanounattested☪︎ Q.4:1Wiktionary ↗
    plural of رَاجِل (rājil)
  • mirjalnounattested☪︎ Q.4:1Wiktionary ↗
    copper cooking-pot, cauldron
    Tool noun from the root ر ج ل (r j l), so-called because the cauldron rests on attached legs or feet opposed to the more familiar native Bedouin method of balancing a typical legless cooking-pot between three rocks.
  • irtajalaverbattested☪︎ Q.4:1Wiktionary ↗
    to improvise, to extemporize (a speech)
  • istarjalaverbattested☪︎ Q.4:1Wiktionary ↗
    to become a man, to reach manhood, to grow up

Turoyo

tru · 1 lemma

Related rootsshare 2 of 3 consonants with r-g-l

Compare two languages side-by-side

akk ↔ sabakk ↔ arcakk ↔ sycakk ↔ aiiakk ↔ he