# \*riḳ- 'be thin' 1, 'be shallow' 2

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: to be thin, shallow; wafer
- SED semet 1238
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/r/1187_be_thin_1_be_shallow_2.md

## In Linear A

- [RU-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RU-KA/index.md>) (ruqāq): thin bread, wafers (qualifier of \*309C KIKKARU)

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: raqāqu 1
- Eblaitic: ra-gu /raḳḳu/ (VE 76, Kogan–Krebernik 2021b: 696 apud SEDonline 2045; Krebernik 1983, 4; Civil 2017, 120) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: rq; rq (I) 1 (DULAT 733); rqt 1 (DULAT 735) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: *raq, rāqīq, *rqq, *raqq (HALOT 1286, 1290, 1293); raḳḳā (HALOT 1288 apud SEDonline 2045) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: rəqāqā (HALOT 1293) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: RQQ (Aramaic Root Atlas; CAL s.v. rqq#2) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root rqq]
- Emar: ru-qa-nu /ruqqānu/ (Pentiuc 2001, 153) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: rqq [-i-] 1

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: req 2
- Harsusi: req 2
- Geez: rqq 1
- Jibbali: reḳḳ 2
- Tigre: raqqa (HALOT 1293)
- Amharic: räḳḳäḳä (AED 387 apud SEDonline 2045) (gloss withheld)
- Tigrinya: räḳ̌äḳ̌ä (TED 560 apud SEDonline 2045)

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