Semitic etymology : Query result

Number: 2624

Proto-Semitic: *ḥanak-/*ḥink-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'palate'

Hebrew: ḥēk, with suff. ḥikk- 2, 'palate' [KB 313] (<*ḥikk- <*ḥink-); PB ḥănīkayim (dual) 'palate and tongue' [Ja 483] (formed after a different derivational pattern preserving -n-)

Aramaic: OFF ḥnk 2 'palate' [HJ 338]

Judaic Aramaic: ḥikkā 2 'palate' [Ja 455]; ḥk (det. ḥykh) do. [Sok 200]

Mandaic Aramaic: hinka 2 'palate, throat' [DM 147]

Arabic: ḥanak-, pl. ʔaḥnāk- 2 'palais, et la partie de la bouche sous le menton correspondente au palais' [BK 1 505]

Tigre: ḥanäk 2 'palate' [LH 84] (an Arabism?)

Mehri: ḥǝnnūk 2 'gum and palate' [JM 183]; QISHN ḥank, pl. haḥnɔ̄́k 'palate' [SSL 1 278]

Jibbali: ḥǝnnūk 2 'gum and palate' [JM 183]; QISHN ḥank, pl. haḥnɔ̄́k 'palate' [SSL 1 278]

Notes: Of interest is a variety of stem patterns in MSA.

Note derived verbs in ETH and MSA: GEZ ḥanaka 'to munch, chew' [LGz 237], TGR (tä)ḥannäkä 'to gulp down with an effort' [LH 84], AMH aññäkä 'to chew, masticate' [K 1254], EAST: WOL enke, SEL ēnkä, ZWY īnkä 'to chew, to crunch' [LGur 65]; MSA: SOQ ḥ-t-nk 'recevoir à manger, donner à manger' [LS 182-3].

AKK ikku often compared to this root is translated as 'temper, irritability' in [CAD i 59] and 'Mut, Stimmung' in [AHw 369] and, therefore, is hardly related.

[KB 313]: HBR, ARM, ARB, TGR, АКК (ikku, quoted as 'courage, humour', and still compared to this root); [Brock 244]: SYR, ARM, HBR, ARB, AKK (ikku); [LGz 237, 251]: GEZ (ḥnk, ḥyk), SOQ, HBR, ARB, JIB, ARM; [LS 182-3]: SOQ, ARB, HBR, ARM, AKK (ikku), TGR (ḥǝnuk 'nourriture')