Number: 2278
Proto-Semitic: *ḳ(ʷ)yʔ (or *ḳy/wʔ)
Meaning: to vomit
Akkadian: 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
Hebrew: ḳyʔ 'to spit, be sick'; hip. 'to vomit something' [KB 1096]
Arabic: ḳyʔ [BK 2 844]
Geʕez (Ethiopian): ḳeʔa [LGz 456]
Tigre: ḳäʔa [LH 255]
Amharic: 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
Mehri: ḳáwya [JM 246]
Jibbali: ḳéʔ [JJ 156]
Harsusi: ḳéwya [JH 80]
Soqotri: 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
