SEDonline
Semitic Etymological Database
Words
Reconstructions
About
Abbreviations
References
Syriac
hll - (aph.) to scoff, mock; to despise, disdain; to praise
(LSyr. 176, SL 344)
Reconstruction
PS
*hll
- to be imbecile, weak-minded, mad; be mocked at
(SED I No. 19ᵥ)
Originally rather a biconsonantal stem. Note various ways of triconsonantization in Eth. and a full reduplication in Arb. and Soq.