Re: 'Arabiiya

> walad=child
> waalid=father
> waalida=mother
> awlaad=children
> walada=to give birth (I believe.  The verb is correct, but the form
may be
> something else...)
Maltese...

boy - tifel
girl - tifla
father - missier
mother - omm
children - tfal
give birth - wiled (actually this is a gender neutral word, to be/-come
the parent of s.o.)

Maltese does also have weld/ulieda child/-ren, but I haven't ever come
across the singular form except in a dictionary, and the plural form is
also very rare compared to tfal. There isn't a natural way to refer to a
single child in a gender-neutral way in Maltese.

And yes, all these Maltese words above have a direct relationship to an
Arabic root.

--
Fabian
Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on cologne and they
go out and smell each other.