ال

Mane (Îngilîzî)

the

Hevwate

اتفاق

أَحْسَن

أَفْضَل

قرابة الدم

Werger

en

-ster

am … -sten

le plus

le

the

-ste

la

els

sa

⚕️

ses

sos

es

conveni

pacte

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/al-/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Uncertain; Rubin posits that this is a reduced form of the lost singular of Arabic أُولَى (ʔulā, “these”); compare rare Hebrew אֵל (el, “these”) and Akkadian 𒌌𒇻𒌑𒌝 (ullûm, “that”). In this hypothesis, original initial /u/ would be lost due to low stress; the initial /a/ found in phrase-initial position would thus be prothetic.