NUMBER: 2278
PROTO: *ḳ(ʷ)yʔ (or *ḳy/wʔ)
MEANING: to vomit
аккадский: kâʔu (gâʔu) 'to spew, to vomit' SB, NA [CAD K 309, G 59], [AHw 284].
A strange case of SEM *ḳ- unconditionally yielding k-/g- in AKK
еврейский (иврит): ḳyʔ 'to spit, be sick'; hip. 'to vomit something' [KB 1096]
арабский: ḳyʔ [BK 2 844]
геэз (древнеэфиопский): ḳeʔa [LGz 456]
тигре: ḳäʔa [LH 255]
амхарский: ḳʷǝḳḳ alä 'to break winds almost imperceptibly, to let a series of farts, to make a noise in vomiting'' [K 761].
Note reduplication in the quasi-verbal element ḳʷǝḳḳ
мехри: ḳáwya [JM 246]
джиббали: ḳéʔ [JJ 156]
харсуси: ḳéwya [JH 80]
сокотри: ḳéʔ 'cracher' [LS 370]
NOTES:
[Fr 39]: *-ḳyiʔ- 'vomitare', *ḳayʔ- 'vomito' (GEZ, ARB, HBR, AKK) ; [KB 1096]: HBR, AKK, GEZ, TGR, ARB; [LGz 456]: GEZ, AKK (glossed as "West Semitic", probably misinterpretation of [AHw 284], where "wsem ḳyʔ" is evidently compared as a cognate, not as a source of borrowing into AKK), ARB, HBR, SOQ
