# \*šakVn- 'to dwell, settle; to place, set'

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

- Author's gloss: to dwell, settle; dwelling; to place
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%C5%A1/2776_to_dwell_settle_to_place_set.md

## In Linear A

- [SI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-KA/index.md>) (šikā): office of the steward or prefect (√s-k-n); rival sukkā 'booth' (√s-k-k)

## Notes

Arabic skn IV 'render or be poor', miskīn 'poor' and Sabaic mhsknm 'wretched persons' (Biella 333) belong to miskīn, a loan from Akkadian muškēnu, root šukēnu (HALOT 605).

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: šakānu (CAD Š/1 116; AHw 1134) (gloss withheld)
- Eblaitic: /S-k-n/: name iš₁₁-gú-nu (š-k-n? Krebernik 1988, 50 n. 10); cf. íl-gú-nu (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 242) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Phoenician: š-k-n (Krahmalkov 460) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: šākan (HALOT 1496); miškān (HALOT 646) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: šken, mašknā (SEDRA 3200, 3199) (gloss withheld)
- Ugaritic: škn (HALOT 1497; DULAT 803) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: šākin (Buck 2019, 332); sakānu, maskanu, maskanû: ma-ás-ka-ni-i (ARM 5, 78: 6) (Streck 2000, 105, 114); S-k-n: áš-ki-na-nu-um, a-bí-iš-ki-in (Ur III); maSkan: ma-aš-ka-nu, ma-às-ka-an-šu-nu (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 242–243) (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: škn, pa. (HALOT 1496); *miškan (HALOT BArm. s.v. מִשְׁכַּן) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: škn (DNWSI 1134) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: sakana 'to dwell, be tranquil' (BK 1, 1115)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic skn (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 121); sknt (Al-Jallad 2026, 131) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab s₁kn (Kogan 2015, ch. 3 §5.3 no. 32; Sabaweb lemma 8477) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Harsusi: sekōn (HSED 2240)
- Jibbali: skun (HSED 2240)
- Tigre: sakna (HALOT 1496)

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