# SI-KA (IOZa6) (šiqā)

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

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: šiqā
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*šVḳ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1389/index.md>) 'drink' 1, 'give a drink, irrigate' 2
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · KA (ka)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎖𐎊 *šqy* — šqy "to give drink" (DULAT 827)
- Hebrew: הִשְׁקָה *hišqā* — hišqā (הִשְׁקָה) "to give drink, to water" (HALOT 1640); šiqqūy (שִׁקּוּי) "drink, watering"; mašqeh (מַשְׁקֶה) "cupbearer, drink"
- Akkadian: *šaqû* — šaqû "to give to drink, to irrigate" (CAD Š2 20); šāqû "cupbearer"
- Arabic: *saqā* — saqā "to water, give drink" (BK 1 1076); sāqī "cupbearer"; siqāya "the providing of water" (Q 9:19 siqāyat al-ḥājj)

## Attestations

- [IO Za 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/IOZa6/index.md>): TA-NA-I-\*301-U-TI-NU I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA JA-SA-SA-RA-ME — Who 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.

## Same root

- [A-DA-KI-SI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DA-KI-SI-KA/index.md>) (Ḫadki-šiqā)
- [I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA/index.md>) (ʿInatī ṯudī-šiqā)
- [TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I/index.md>) (tesʾad šeqī)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2; Pagan 1998
- 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
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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
- BK 1: Biberstein Kazimirski, A. de (1860), Dictionnaire arabe-français, tome premier (ا–ص). Maisonneuve et Cie, Paris
- CAD Š/2: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1992), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 2. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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