*bly - to be old, worn out (CDG 98; Kogan 2015: 184; EDA I 212)

Connection with ESA blyt ‘to be buried suggested by W. Müller (1962: 29, 1963: 307) is doubtful (CDG 98)

PWS

*bVlVyt- - curtain, rag

Probably a generalization from “old, worn out cloth” to “cloth” in general.

Akkadian

balû - to become extinguished, to come to an end (CAD B 72, AHw. 121)

Var. belû. Derived words: belû ‘extinguished’ (CAD B 94, AHw. 121).

Hebrew

bly - to be worn out (HALOT 132)

Hebrew

būl - wood block (as fuel) (HALOT 115)

Is probably borrowed from the Akkadian bulû ‘firewood’.

Official Aramaic

bly - worn (DNWSI 166)

Jewish Palestinian Aramaic

bly - to be worn out (DJPA 104)

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

bly - to waste away, to wear out (DJPA 104)

Syriac

bly - to be worn out, old; to age (LSyr. 74, SL 156)

Mandaic

bla - to be worn out, fail, wear out, decay, grow old, waste away (MD 65)

Mandaic

bulbulaia - marks of deterioration (MD 65)

reduplicated root

Arabic

bly - to be old, worn-out (Lane 255)

Geez

balbala - become old (CDG 95)

reduplicated root

Geez

balya - to be old, worn-out (CDG 98)

bəluy = old, ancient, obsolete, worn out

Tigre

bäla - to be old, worn-out (WTS 272)

Tigrinya

bäläyä - to be old, worn-out (TED 1098)

Amharic

bäläbbälä - become old, become tattered (of clothes) (CDG 95)

reduplicated root, also in boläbbolä = become treadbare

Amharic

bəluy - old (CDG 98)

in ‘bəluy kidan’ = Old Testament, from Gez