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w l d

31 lemmas · 8 languages
I-weakFirst consonant is w or y. In Arabic these often elide in the imperfect (w-ṣ-l → yaṣilu 'arrives'). Hebrew roots in pe-yod/pe-waw. mu'allaqa of Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma
Themes:birth·10child·6childbirth·4born·3boy·3
POS shape:noun·17verb·11adj·2name·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

*w-l-dProto-Semitic
East Semitic
Akkadianwalādumw l dto give birth
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Aramaic
Syriacܐܬܝܠܕܘ ܠ ܕto be born
Assyrian NAܝܵܠܹܕ݂ܘ ܠ ܕto birth; to give birth
Arabic
Arabicوَلَدَو ل دto bear, to beget
South Semitic
Old South Arabian
OSA𐩥𐩡𐩵𐩥 𐩡 𐩵child
Ethio-Semitic
Ge'ezወልድወ ለ ደson, child
Amharicወለደወ ለ ደto give birth to
Tigrinyaወላዲወ ለ ደparent

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
  • verbinferredWiktionary ↗
    to give birth
    From Proto-Semitic *walad-. Cognate with Arabic وَلَدَ (walada) and Biblical Hebrew יָלַד (yɔlaḏ).
  • adjinferredWiktionary ↗
    begetter, birth giving, (mother) who bore, real (father/mother), progenitor/progenitress
    Participle of 𒉿𒆷𒁺𒌝 (walādum). Cognate with Arabic وَالِد (wālid) and Biblical Hebrew יֹלֵד (yoléḏ, “he who begets”).

Old South Arabian

irregular reflexosa · 1 lemma

Classical Syriac

syc · 7 lemmas
  • ʾeṯīleḏverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to be born
  • yālōḏānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    parent
    Compare Arabic وَالِد (wālid).
  • yallūḏānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    child, infant, young boy
    Compare Hebrew יָלוּד (yālûḏ).
  • mawlāḏānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    birth, nativity
    From the root ܘ ܠ ܕ related to bearing children. Compare Arabic مَوْلِد (mawlid) and Hebrew מוֹלָד (môlāḏ).
  • nounattestedWiktionary ↗
    child, infant, young girl
    Compare Hebrew יְלוּדָה (yəlûḏâ).
  • nounattestedWiktionary ↗
    childhood, infancy
    From ܝܠܘܕܐ (yallūḏā, “child”), from the root ܘ ܠ ܕ related to bearing children + the abstract noun ending -ܘܬܐ (-ūṯā).
  • nounattestedWiktionary ↗
    childbirth, birth
    From the root ܘ ܠ ܕ related to bearing children.

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

aii · 8 lemmas
  • yālēḏverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to birth; to give birth
    From Aramaic יְלַד (yəlaḏ), from Proto-Semitic *walad-; compare Arabic وَلَدَ (walada), Akkadian 𒅇𒌅 (walādum), Hebrew יָלַד (yālaḏ) and Ugaritic 𐎊𐎍𐎄 (yld).
  • īliḏnounattestedWiktionary ↗
    construct state singular of ܝܲܠܕܵܐ (yaldā, “boy; childbirth, delivery”)
    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
  • yaldānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    a boy, male child
    Inherited from Aramaic יַלְדָּא (yalədā), from Proto-Semitic *walad-; compare Arabic وَلَد (walad) and Hebrew יֶלֶד (yéled). The initial noun is borrowed from Arabic عِيَال (ʕiyāl, “children”) with a semantic matching with Classical Syriac, and may be considered a separate word as a learned borrowing from Classical…
    1 derivation
  • yaldānameattestedWiktionary ↗
    a male given name
    Inherited from Aramaic יַלְדָּא (yalədā), from Proto-Semitic *walad-; compare Arabic وَلَد (walad) and Hebrew יֶלֶד (yéled). The initial noun is borrowed from Arabic عِيَال (ʕiyāl, “children”) with a semantic matching with Classical Syriac, and may be considered a separate word as a learned borrowing from Classical…
  • mawliḏverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to beget, sire; to make children to, to cause to give birth
    Causative stem of the verb ܝܵܠܹܕ݂ (yālēḏ, “to give birth”); compare Hebrew הוֹלִיד (holíd) and Arabic أَوْلَدَ (ʔawlada).
  • myalliḏverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    to deliver a baby, to assist in childbirth (as a midwife)
    Intensitive stem of the verb ܝܵܠܹܕ݂ (yālēḏ, “to give birth”); compare Hebrew יִלֵּד (yiléd) and Arabic وَلَّدَ (wallada).
  • iṯīliḏverbattestedWiktionary ↗
    used to refer to someone’s birth in formal contexts, biographies, gravestones, etc.
    Learned borrowing from Classical Syriac, Literally, “he was born”, from the older form ܐܸܬ݂ܝܠܸܕ݂.
  • yaldtānounattestedWiktionary ↗
    girl, female child
    Derived as a feminine form of ܝܲܠܕܵܐ (yaldā, “boy, male child”) which has a variant also proposed to be borrowed from Arabic عِيَال (ʕiyāl, “children”); compare Hebrew יַלְדָּה (yaldá).

Arabic

ar · 8 lemmas

Ge'ez

gez · 2 lemmas
  • wäldnounattestedWiktionary ↗
    son, child
    From Proto-Semitic *walad- Compare Arabic وَلَد (walad, “child”), وَلَدَ (walada, “to give birth”), Hebrew יֶלֶד.
  • wəludnouninferredWiktionary ↗
    plural of ወልድ (wäld)

Amharic

am · 2 lemmas

Tigrinya

ti · 1 lemma

Related rootsshare 2 of 3 consonants with w-l-d

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