# \*šVḳ- 'drink' 1, 'give a drink, irrigate' 2

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

- Author's gloss: to give drink, water, irrigate; to drink
- SED semet 1469
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%C5%A1/1389_drink_1_give_a_drink_irrigate_2.md

## In Linear A

- [A-DA-KI-SI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DA-KI-SI-KA/index.md>) (Ḫadki-šiqā): Ḫadki gives drink (personal name; Ḫadki, a Mari-area name of Adad, + šiqā 'who gives drink'); rival 'Ḫadki is (my) dwelling'
- [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): my Anat, Breast-Who-Gives-Drink—theonym plus compound divine epithet
- [SI-KA (IOZa6)](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-KA~20(IOZa6)/index.md>) (šiqā): Who Gives Drink (proposed second member of a divine epithet; participial/verbal noun of √š-q-y)
- [TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I/index.md>) (tesʾad šeqī): she serves; give (him) drink!

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: šaqû 2 (CAD Š/2 24; AHw 1181); mašqītu (CAD M/1 382); šiḳītum (CAD Š/3 95 apud Kogan 2025, 9) (gloss withheld)
- Eblaitic: si-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)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: šqy, Š 2 (DULAT 827) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: šqh 2; hišqā (Hiphil); mašqe (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: ʾašqī (HALOT 1639)
- Aramaic: šqyʾ, hšqyʾ, CPArm. šqʾ (HALOT 1639); šqʔ (DNWSI 1186) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: ʾašqī (HALOT 1639)
- Mandaic Aramaic: ŠQA (HALOT 1639)
- Amorite: š-q-y (George and Krebernik 2022, 156) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: sqy 1, 2; saqā; sāqī; siqāya (gloss withheld)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic sqy (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 123); Hismaic sqy (Al-Jallad 2026, 135) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab s1qy, ms1tqy (SD 128; Sabaweb lemma 1827); s1qy (Sabaweb lemma 1832), t-stem (Sabaweb lemma 2237) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Jibbali: šeḳe 2
- Geez: saqaya (HALOT 1639)
- Mehri: təḳ (Kogan 2011, 238); həḳū (Kogan 2011, 239) (gloss withheld)
- Soqotri: héṣ̌e (Kogan 2011, 239); ʸháṣ̌e (SLOnline 7250) (gloss withheld)
- Gurage: säč̣ä (EDG 534 apud SEDonline 9) (gloss withheld)

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Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.