Southeast Semitic Cognates to the Akkadian Vocabulary. I

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IN TWO PREVIOUS ARTICLES1 I suggested some cognates to the Akkadian vocabulary published by Wolfram von Soden, Akkadisches Handw6rterbuch, pp. 1-464. The present article analyzes the vocabulary of pp. 465760. The term Southeast Semitic refers to Ethiopic, Epigraphic and Modern South Arabian.2 As in the previous articles, Geez is taken as the representative of Ethiopic. The modern Ethiopian languages are taken into consideration only when there is no Geez cognate. Occasionally etymologies and comparisons from languages other than are also suggested.3 The words in parentheses on the line following the main entry are those of v.Soden; following these, are the statements of the present writer. katdtu(m) vibrieren ? (465); (ar. ktt brodeln); cf. Te. katkdt beta run quickly. ki wie, als, dass (468); (sem. Prp ka * *); Geez, however, does not have this preposition. On the other hand, the element kd like occurs in the Gurage dialects of Ennemor, Gyeto, and others as postposition. kibrstu schwarzer Schwefel (471); Ar. kibrit passed into Amharic (and some other modern Ethiopian languages) klbrit match. kiltlu(m) Kranz (476); (> aram. klild, r.r iklil); G. 'aklil crown should mentioned even though it is undoubtedly borrowed from Arabic. kimtu(m) Familie (479); (he., aram. k1md Plejaden). The connection with Ar. kawm heap, pile is preferable even though k1ma (Hebr., Aram.) Pleiades may ultimately connected with it. kinnarum indische Zither (480); (sem. ausser Rth.); perhaps also Amlh. kdrar kind of lyre. However, J. Baeteman, Dictionnaire amarigna-fran~ais, col. 720, derives Amh. klrar from the root kdrrdra stretch, karar is so called because the strings are stretched. kTru(m) I (Asphalt-)Ofen (484); also kuiru(m) Schmelzofen (512). Note that the Ar. noun passed into G.Amh. kdwr furnace. kisallu(m), kisillu, auch kisallu Knbchel (488); there seems to a connection between this root and Akk. kursinnu (511) Fussknochel(bereich). ki.'ddu(m) Hals, Nacken (490); to G. kdsad mentioned by v.Soden, add Te. sdgad neck mentioned in H.Holma, Die Namen der Korperteile im Assyrisch-Babylonischen, p. 37. kitu'(m) Flachs, Leinen (495); (sum. Lw. > wsem. ki/e/attdn, syr. qettaw); the noun also passed from Arabic into G. kdtan. kullu(m) II, ass. kaulu(m) (fest)halten (502); (he. hUkl kilkelM er-, umfassen; aram. akkel messen); cf. also G. 'akala be equal. kurku'(m) eine Haushuhnart? (510); (sum. Lw. > aram. kurkja, ar. kurki Kranich); note that the Ar. kurki passed into G. kwdraki. kurkanu' Curcuma, Gilbwurz (510); (he. karkom, aram., ar. usw kurkum); D. H. 1 JAOS 82(1962)1-4; JAOS 84(1964)115-118. 2 See W. Leslau, JAOS 63(1943)4-14. 3 The names of the languages are abbreviated as follows: Akk. = Akkadian; Amh. = Amharic; Ar. = Arabic; Aram. -Aramaic; G. = Geez; Har. = Harari; Hebr. = Hebrew; Mh. = Mehri; SA = Epigraphic South Arabian; Sh = Shauri; Soq. = Soqotri; Te. = Tigre; Tna. = Tigrinya; Ug. = Ugaritic. I do not give the abbreviations used by v. Soden.