ء و ل

Arabic

Etymology

آل (ʔāl, “family”) is probably the original, because one returns to it and manages it, it being but a variant of أَهْل (ʔahl).

Root

ء و ل • (ʔ-w-l)

1. related to returning
2. related to managing

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: آلَ (ʔāla, “to return”)
  • Verbal noun: أَوْل (ʔawl), إِيَال (ʔiyāl), أَيْلُولَة (ʔaylūla), مَآل (maʔāl)
  • Active participle: آئِل (ʔāʔil)
  • Passive participle: مَؤُول (maʔūl)
• Form II: أَوَّلَ (ʔawwala, “to bid to return; to explain”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأْوِيل (taʔwīl)
  • Active participle: مُؤَوِّل (muʔawwil)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَوَّل (muʔawwal)
• Form V: تَأَوَّلَ (taʔawwala, “to explain”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأَوُّل (taʔawwul)
  • Active participle: مُتَأَوِّل (mutaʔawwil)
  • Passive participle: مُتَأَوَّل (mutaʔawwal)
• Form VIII: اِئْتَالَ (iʔtāla, “to administrate well”)
  • Verbal noun: اِئْتِيَال (iʔtiyāl)
  • Active participle: مُؤْتَال (muʔtāl)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْتَال (muʔtāl)

• آل (ʔāl, “family; a piece of wood to prop up”)
• آلَة (ʔāla, “instrument”)
• إِيَالَة (ʔiyāla, “administration”)
• أَوَّل (ʔawwal, “first”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 90, compares, apart from Old South Arabian 𐩱𐩥𐩡 (ʾwl, “to return; to obtain”), as Dillmann, August (1865) “አውል”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 790, Ge'ez አውል (ʾäwl, “vapor, mist”) for rare آل (ʔāl, “vapor”) which may be a Ge'ez loanword instead, the Geʿez a variant of ዐውሎ (ʿäwlo, “whirlwind”), which compares already in Dillmann, August (1865) “ዐውሎ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 994 to Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Jewish Literary Aramaic עלעולא (ʿalʿōlā, “storm wind”), Classical Syriac ܥܠܥܠܐ (ʿalʿālā, “wind storm”), and compares Hebrew אַיִל (ʾáyyil, “ram; leader, chief”), which must be seen as an unrelated Proto-Semitic animal name, *ʔayyal-, and refers to unelucidated “plusieurs évolutions sémantiques”.
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ء و ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 70–71
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “اول”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate