# \*dirk- 'road; tread' 1, 'rule, power' 2, 'to pursue, overtake' 3

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

- Author's gloss: to tread, trample; road, way; power
- SED semet 3174
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/d/2639_road_tread_1_rule_power_2_to_pursue_overtake_3.md

## In Linear A

- [U-DI-RI-KI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-DI-RI-KI/index.md>) (u-dirik): conjunction u- "and" + dirik "way, path"—Hebrew derek דֶּרֶךְ, Akkadian darāku "to tread"; cross-ref DA-RE-KU (ZA18a, same √d-r-k skeleton, different vowel class)

## Notes

Tomback (T 75) compares B.Heb. derek 'power' (Prov. 31:3). DULAT 279 sets Ug. drkt beside Arab. darak 'attaining, overtaking'. Biella 85 compares Arabic daraka 'reach, overtake someone by pursuit'.

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Mandaic Aramaic: dirka 1 (MD 109)
- Phoenician: drk
- Hebrew: däräk
- Ugaritic: drk (Tropper UG 120); drkt 2 (DULAT 279) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: drek 'tread, tread out; arrive; overtake' (Payne Smith 97)
- Judaic Aramaic: darkaʾ (T 76); derak (T 75) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: Emp. drk (T 75) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: N.Pu. drk 2 (T 75) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab ydrkhmw 3 (Biella 85); hdrkhmw 3 (Biella 86); drk 3; hdrk 3 (SD 36) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Geez: (?) daraka, madrak (LGz. 142) (gloss withheld)

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