SEDonline
Semitic Etymological Database
Words
Reconstructions
About
Abbreviations
References
Arabic
qwl - to say
(Lane 2994)
Reconstruction
PWS
*ḳwl
- to say
(Kogan 2015: 119)
See also
*ḳawl-/*ḳāl-
- voice. The widespread equation between this root and Akk.
ḳâlu
‘to become silent, to stay quiet’ is hard to justify semantically.