Number: 195
Proto-Semitic: *kʷal-m-at-
Meaning: 'parasite, vermin; louse'
Akkadian: kulīlu 'dragonfly' (CAD k 503), kalmatu 'parasite, louse (on animals, plants and human beings)' OAkk. on [CAD k 86], [AHw. 426]. In Old Akkadian as a proper name only. The oldest attestations may be found in the OA and OB letters CCT 2 30:29 and TCL 17 2:21 (both describe grain which is kalmatam lapit/laptat 'affected by k.'). References from Mari are collected and analysed in [Lion-Michel 720-2], for the OA references v. Michel 1998 328. Se- veral varieties of k. are found in lexical lists
Aramaic: klmh 'parasite, louse' [HJ 513]. Supposed to be attes- ted in KAI 222 A 31 (cf. above) where kl mh (usually understood as 'everything that') is thought to represent klmh (v. espe- cially [Tawil 60-2]). This approach is rejected in [Fitzmyer 88-9] ("but that is not to be accepted") without sufficient ar- gumentation. Sam. klmym 'gnat' [Tal 391]
Judaic Aramaic: kalmā, kalmǝtā 'vermin' [Ja. 645], [Levy WT I 367], [Levy WTM II 341], klmh 'vermin' [Sok. 261]
Geʕez (Ethiopian): kʷǝlkʷǝl(t) 'kind of black ant' (LGz 283)
