Proto-Semitic root
*šVḳ-
‘drink’ 1, ‘give a drink, irrigate’ 2
di Mino’s gloss: to give drink, water, irrigate; to drink
Record 1389 ↗ · SED semet 1469 · Basis: SED, meaning edited
In Linear A4 entries
A-DA-KI-SI-KAḪadki-šiqāḪadki gives drink (personal name)SpeculativeSemitic13DI-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KAʿInatī ṯudī-šiqāmy Anat, Breast-Who-Gives-Drink—theonym plus compound divine epithetSpeculativeSemitic13DSI-KA (IOZa6)šiqāWho Gives Drink (proposed second member of a divine epithet)CandidateSemitic1TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-Itesʾad šeqīshe servesSpeculativeSemitic13D
Reflexes17 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadianšaqû 2 (CAD Š/2 24; AHw 1181)mašqītu (CAD M/1 382)šiḳītum (CAD Š/3 95 apud Kogan 2025, 9)gloss withheld
- Eblaiticsi-gu-dam /šiḳūtum/ (ARET 16, 1 rev. VIII 5–11)si-gi-da-am₆-ma /šiḳītum/ (ARET 16, 2 rev. IV 4 – V 1) (Kogan 2025, 8–9)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic7
- Ugariticšqy, Š 2 (DULAT 827)gloss withheld
- Hebrewšqh 2hišqā (Hiphil)mašqegloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaicʾašqī (HALOT 1639)
- Aramaicšqyʾ, hšqyʾ, CPArm. šqʾ (HALOT 1639)šqʔ (DNWSI 1186)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicʾašqī (HALOT 1639)
- Mandaic AramaicŠQA (HALOT 1639)
- Amoriteš-q-y (George and Krebernik 2022, 156)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicsqy 1, 2saqāsāqīsiqāyagloss withheld
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic sqy (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 123)Hismaic sqy (Al-Jallad 2026, 135)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSab s1qy, ms1tqy (SD 128; Sabaweb lemma 1827)s1qy (Sabaweb lemma 1832), t-stem (Sabaweb lemma 2237)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian5
- Jibbališeḳe 2
- Geezsaqaya (HALOT 1639)
- Mehritəḳ (Kogan 2011, 238)həḳū (Kogan 2011, 239)gloss withheld
- Soqotrihéṣ̌e (Kogan 2011, 239)ʸháṣ̌e (SLOnline 7250)gloss withheld
- Guragesäč̣ä (EDG 534 apud SEDonline 9)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.