Proto-Semitic root

*nVsVk-

‘to pour a libation’

di Mino’s gloss: to pour a libation; to cast metal

Record 2715 ↗ · SED semet 369 · Basis: SED, meaning edited

In Linear A1 entry

OLE+NEnesekuoil designated for ritual libationCandidateSemitic43D

Notes

Arabic nasaka ‘he worshipped’, nasīkaᵗ (Lane 3032); ‘be pious, devout’, ‘consecrate’, ‘victim sacrificed as an offering’ (BK 2, 1251): the cultic sense, not ‘to pour’.

Reflexes12 languages

East Semitic2

Akkadiannasāku (CAD N/2 15)gloss withheld
Eblaitic=na-za-gúm /n-s-k/ (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 101)gloss withheld

Northwest Semitic10

Ugariticnsk (DULAT 635)gloss withheld
Hebrewnāsak (HALOT 703)gloss withheld
Phoeniciannsk (T 214)msk (T 188)mskt (T 189)mskt (Krahmalkov 298)gloss withheld
Judaic Aramaicniskā (HALOT 702, 703)gloss withheld
Syrian Aramaicneskᵉtā, nsīkā, nsākā (HALOT 702, 703)gloss withheld
Punicnskh (HALOT 703)msk (T 188)nsknskt (Krahmalkov 329)gloss withheld
Aramaicnsk (T 214)
Biblical Aramaicnesak (T 214)
Amoritenasku (Buck 2019, 330)gloss withheld
Emarna-si-ku /nāsiku/ (Pentiuc 2001, 132–133)gloss withheld

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.