#Semitic *√BṬL “to cease” appears in:
- baṭālu “cease, be without work”
- bāṭal “be without work” (<Akkadian? Aramaic?)
- ’abṭālâ “unemployment”
- bāṭēl “worthless, invalid”
- bṭēl “cease, without work”
- bṭil “worthless”
- baṭala “reduced to nothing, without work”
- bāṭəl “free, unfair, in vain”
- bṭol “wipe out, annihilate”
- bṭl “burning”
- šbṭl “be empty, desert dry”
- habṭóul “annihilate”
- baṭala “worthless, vain, cease, abolished”
- bäṭlä “worthless”
- bäṭṭälä “spoiled” bəṭul “incorrect”