# \*nVsVk- 'to pour a libation'

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

- Author's gloss: to pour a libation; to cast metal
- SED semet 369
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/n/2715_to_pour_a_libation.md

## In Linear A

- [OLE+NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE~2BNE/index.md>) (neseku): oil designated for ritual libation; sacred oil poured as an offering

## 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'.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

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

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: nsk (DULAT 635) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: nāsak (HALOT 703) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: nsk (T 214); msk (T 188); mskt (T 189); mskt (Krahmalkov 298) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: niskā (HALOT 702, 703) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: neskᵉtā, nsīkā, nsākā (HALOT 702, 703) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: nskh (HALOT 703); msk (T 188); nsk; nskt (Krahmalkov 329) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: nsk (T 214)
- Biblical Aramaic: nesak (T 214)
- Amorite: nasku (Buck 2019, 330) (gloss withheld)
- Emar: na-si-ku /nāsiku/ (Pentiuc 2001, 132–133) (gloss withheld)

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