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Root ט־י־ל: strolling

Roots Atlas 176 · שֹׁרֶשׁ ט י ל · the strolling root
ט י ל
t · y · l
everything to do with going for a walk or a trip
3 words · 1 root · 1 verb-voices

Three consonants carry one idea: moving about for pleasure, a walk, a hike, a trip. The verb is the everyday Israeli word for going on an outing, and the family stays right there: the verb to stroll, the noun for the outing itself, and the seafront promenade where everyone does it. The same root letters also live in טִיל, a missile, something that travels through the air, but the strolling family below is its own friendly cluster. Every word is verified against pealim, niqqud included.

The verb across the binyanim (voices)

The same root runs through the verb system. Each binyan is a voice: it bends the one idea into active, passive, causative or reciprocal. Tap to hear.

Pi'el
לְטַיֵּלletayel
intensive / specialized active
to stroll, to go on a trip, to hike

This root lives in pi'el alone. The doer is מְטַיֵּל, a hiker or tourist out on a trip, formed the regular pi'el participle way even though it is not in the verified family list below. The other binyanim are not lexicalized for this sense.

Words born from the root

Same root letters, different noun moulds (mishkalim). The mould tells you the function: who does it, the act of doing it, or the thing produced.

① The outing: the trip itself

טִיּוּל
tiyul
a walk, a hike, a trip
קִיטּוּל

② The place: where you stroll

טַיֶּלֶת
tayelet
promenade, seafront walkway

Decode it yourself

Strip the prefixes, suffixes and vowels. Three consonants remain, and the meaning lives there.