@ARTICLE{Guth_Stephan_From_2022,
 author={Guth, Stephan},
 volume={vol. 59},
 journal={Folia Orientalia},
 pages={49-75},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2022},
 publisher={Commission of Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences – Kraków Branch},
 abstract={The following article can serve as yet another report from the workshop of an Etymological Dictionary of Arabic ( EtymArab).1 Work on a ‘zero version’ of such a dictionary has seen (slow but) steady progress since several years now. Taking the root √SLQ as an example, this contribution gives an idea about the high potential of such a project, but also shows its clear actual limits. The enormous spectrum of semantic values covered by √SLQ—one may distinguish more than thirty meanings that, at first sight, do not seem related to each other—provides a fine illustration of the complex composition of the modern as well as the classical lexicon. The current state of affairs in Arabic etymology allows us, to a certain degree, to ‘sort out things’ and bring some order into this confusing complexity. In many cases, however, research also remains ‘hanging in the air’.},
 type={Article},
 title={From ‘flaying’, ‘Ascension’ and ‘red garden-beet’ to ‘wolves’ and ‘sweet dishes’: The Stunning Semantic Variety in the Arabic Root SLQ as a Touchstone for Arabic Etymologists},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/125906/PDF-MASTER/2022-FORI-02.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/for.2022.143836},
 keywords={loanwords, reflexes of protSem *š- causative, root extension, figurative use, semantic expansion},
}