𒅗

𒅗 Cuneiform sign KA

• Borger (2003): 24
• Borger (1981):
• HZL: 133

phonetic values

• Sumerian: KA
• Akkadian: ka
• Hittite:

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• R. Borger, Assyrisch-Babylonische Zeichenliste, 2nd ed., Neukirchen-Vluyn (1981)
• R. Borger, Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon, Münster (2003).
• Chr. Rüster, E. Neu, Hethitisches Zeichenlexikon (HZL), Wiesbaden (1989)

• 𒅗𒂵 (DU₁₁.GA) (verb)

From Proto-Semitic *pay-, compare Aramaic ܦܘܡܐ‎, Ugaritic 𐎔 (p).

𒅗 (pû)

[KA]

1. mouth

From Proto-Semitic *hawata-/*ʔaw-, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic *ʔiw- (“to call out, to cry, to clamor”), cognate with Arabic هَوْتَ‎ (hawta)/هَيْتَ‎ (hayta, “come here, I beckon you”) and Egyptian jw (“to complain, to speak against wrongdoing”).

𒅗 (awātu)

[INIM]

1. word
2. matter, affair

Of uncertain etymology, not a Sumerian loan, being derived from another substratum or more likely a Semitic root that was more productive in East Semitic; possible connections to Arabic قَوَّهُ‎ (qawwahu, “to shriek, scream, yell, cry out, shout”) and Arabic قَبَّ‎ (qabba, “to raise a clamor, to make a confusion of cries, to shout, to make a noise or utter a sound; to audibly gnash teeth, to grumble, to bray”).

𒅗 (qabû)

[DU11]

1. to speak

𒅗 (šinnum)

[ZÚ]

1. ivory

• INIM in ePSD
• DU₁₁ in ePSD