SEDonline
Semitic Etymological Database
Words
Reconstructions
About
Abbreviations
References
Tigrinya
ˁəlät - day
(TED 476)
Reconstruction
PES
*ˁVl-at-/*maˁal-t-
- day
(Kogan 2015: 459)
Derived from the verbal root *wˁl ‘to spend the day,’ for which no persuasive etymology has been suggested so far (cf. CDG 603).