The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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$ty verb G

Perfect originally (i.e. after the loss of original short /a/ vowel) with preformative aleph: ˀeštī; in Syr. also reformulated as ܫܬܵܐ .

G
  1 to drink Com. --(a) to feast Syr.
  2 to be washed Syr.
  3 to be irrigated Gal, Syr, JBA.
  4 fig. : to suffer Syr.
  5 to smoke tobacco Syr.

C
1 to give to drink Syr.

Gt
1 to be drunk (drink) JLAtg, Syr, JBA.

Dt
1 to accept a drink Syr.

l) a01

lˀ (lā) adv. no, not

OA just l presumably always prefixed to the following word. Sam. occasionally the same. Early Egyptian OfA alternating lh and lˀ but elsewhere almost always with final aleph in the literary tradition and even so in Gal. and Sam. where other final long /a/ vowels are regularly rendered with heh.

  1 no, not Com. --(a) ܠܵܐ ܗܘܵܐ : it is not Syr.
  2 ܕܠܵܐ : without : see s.v. dlˀ prep. Syr. --(a) ܕܠܵܐ ܂܂܂ ܘܠܵܐ : without ... and without ... Syr.
  3 compounded with adjectives, nom.agg., abstracts, and adverbs ='un-', 'non', 'in-' Syr. --(a) nom. agg. . (a.1) adjectives therefrom . 1 adverbs therefrom . 2 abstracts therefrom . --(b) other adjectives . --(c) other abstract nouns (not ending in ūṯā) .
  4 הלא see s.v. hlˀ adv. BA-Da.