# A-PA-KI (ʾabkī) > I weep (G prefix form, 1cs); rival ʾabakki (G present) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: ʾabkī - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*bky-]() 'to weep, cry, lament' 1, 'weeping, lamentation' 2 - Kind: Verbal - Language: Semitic - Signs: A (a) · PA (pa) · KI (ki) ## Compared forms - Hebrew: G 1cs ʾebkeh 'I weep' (Isa 16:9; Jer 48:32); wāʾebkeh 'and I wept' beside prayer (Neh 1:4); D-stem bikkâ 'bewail': məbakkôt ʾet-hattammûz, women bewailing Tammuz (Ezek 8:14) - Akkadian: *bakû* — bakû 'weep' (ORACC CAMS; 3cs preterite ibki, so 1cs abki); a-bak-ki = G present 1cs abakki (ORACC P273162, P338383) - Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎋𐎊 *bky* — bky 'weeping, lament'; G prefix ỉbky, ảky, tbky, ybky (DULAT 217f.) - Eblaite: da-ba-ga tabkay, G prefix; ib-gi yibkī, a name (GlOS 1, 115) - Geʿez: *bäkäyä* — bäkäyä 'flere, plorare, lamentari' (Dillmann 1865, no. 4035), imperfect of the yəqättəl type ## Attestations - [KN Zb 40](): A-PA-KI — I weep ## Commentary KN Zb 40 .1 A-PA-KI, then U-NA-A, incised on a pithoid jar from the Unexplored Mansion, Knossos, in an LM II destruction deposit, the jar typologically LM I and the inscription LM IB (Popham 1976, 102–106, apud Owens 1998–99, 148), with a domestic shrine and a goddess figurine on the upper floor (Owens 1998–99, 148). A writes the 1cs ʾa- (as in ʾata-inawaya), PA b with a dead vowel, KI kī: ʾabkī, the G prefix form, Heb. ʾebkeh 'I weep' (Isa 16:9; Jer 48:32). A- marks the G, since a D 1cs takes ʾu- (Ar. ʾu-, Fischer 2002, §211b; Akk. ubakka). Rivals: the G present ʾabakki, which fills every vowel, Akk. a-bak-ki (ORACC P273162, P338383), Geʿez bäkäyä 'flere, lamentari' (Dillmann 1865, no. 4035) with the yəqättəl imperfect (Gragg 1997, Table 13.3), a present East and South Semitic keep and Central Semitic lost, and ʾa-pak- 'jug, bottle', Heb. pak, a small flask (HALOT 926), a poor fit for a pithoid jar, with Ug. bk 'beaker' (DULAT 216). Weak point: a lament on a household storage jar rests on the shrine context. One attestation. ## References - Reading: di Mino; GlOS 1; Owens 1998–99; HALOT; DULAT - ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated - Popham, Mervyn R. (1976), An inscribed pithoid jar from Knossos, with an appendix by Maurice Pope and Jacques Raison. Kadmos,15,102–107 - Dillmann, August (1865), Lexicon Linguae Aethiopicae. GitHub (DillmannData) - Owens, Gareth (1999), Late Minoan II Knossos: Minoan and/or Mycenaean?. Talanta,Supplementum Epigraphicum Mediterraneum 22,30–31,147–154 - Fischer, Wolfdietrich (2002), A Grammar of Classical Arabic. Yale Language Series,Yale University Press - HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln - DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts - GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park - Gragg, Gene (1997), Geʿez (Ethiopic). In R. Hetzron (ed.), The Semitic Languages, Routledge, London and New York, ch. 13, pp. 242–260 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-PA-KI/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.