SI-KA (IOZa6)

Who Gives Drink (proposed second member of a divine epithet; participial/verbal noun of √š-q-y)

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Reading
šiqā
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*šVḳ- ‘drink’ 1, ‘give a drink, irrigate’ 2
Kind
Divine
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎌𐎖𐎊šqyšqy "to give drink" (DULAT 827)
  • Hebrewהִשְׁקָהhišqāhišqā (הִשְׁקָה) "to give drink, to water" (HALOT 1640); šiqqūy (שִׁקּוּי) "drink, watering"; mašqeh (מַשְׁקֶה) "cupbearer, drink"
  • Akkadianšaqûšaqû "to give to drink, to irrigate" (CAD Š2 20); šāqû "cupbearer"
  • Arabicsaqāsaqā "to water, give drink" (BK 1 1076); sāqī "cupbearer"; siqāya "the providing of water" (Q 9:19 siqāyat al-ḥājj)

Attestations1 cited

  1. IO Za 63DTA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NU I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA JA-SA-SA-RA-MEWho Gives Drink (second member of a divine epithet)

Commentary

IO Za 6, inside the undivided group I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA, segmented after ZU-DI: the second member of ṯudī-šiqā ‘Breast-Who-Gives-Drink’. √š-q-y ‘give drink’: the participle sāqiy ‘waterer’ (GlOS 2, 245), Ebla saqat ‘libation’ (GlOS 2, 246) and the Ebla name si-gi-da-mu ‘give drink, Damu!’ (Pagan 1998, row 4205). The same šiqā closes A-DA-KI-SI-KA (KH 5). Cf. administrative SI-KA (√š-k-n) on the HT nodules. Weak point: no divider stands before SI-KA. One attestation. See TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).

Linear A Lexicon