# \*kapp- 'palm, flap of hand or foot'

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

- Author's gloss: palm of the hand, sole of the foot; handful, bowl
- SED semet 2117
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/k/1945_palm_flap_of_hand_or_foot.md

## In Linear A

- [KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA/index.md>) (kapp): palm-measure, bowl (unit of dry/liquid measure; administrative commodity category)

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: kappu OB on [CAD k 185], [AHw 444]. (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Canaanite: EG SYLL ka=pa /*kappa/ [Hoch 318] (gloss withheld)
- Mandaic Aramaic: kapa [DM 200] (gloss withheld)
- Ugaritic: kp [DULAT 447] (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: kap (HALOT 491), *ʔäkäp in ʔakp-ī (HALOT 47) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: kap (kappā) [Ja 657]; [DJPA 266b apud CAL] (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: kappā 'palm (of the hand)' [Brock 339]
- Aramaic: DRA OFF kp [HJ 528] (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: kaff- 'palm of the hand' [BK 2 910]; kaff 'hand' (Lane 3001) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root kp]

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: kaf [JM 204] (gloss withheld)
- Harsusi: kǝf [JH 67]
- Geez: (?) kāf [LGz 276]. (gloss withheld)
- Jibbali: kɛf [JJ 127]

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