# \*ṯVḳVl- 'weigh' 1, 'shekel, weight (unit)' 2

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

- Author's gloss: to weigh, pay; weight, shekel
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%E1%B9%AF/2961_weigh_1_shekel_weight_unit_2.md

## In Linear A

- [SA-QE-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-QE-RI/index.md>) (Šaqeli): personal name, from √š-q-l 'to weigh'

## Notes

HALOT 1642, root A. Ug. ṯql survives only in the noun 'shekel' 2. Distinct from the homonym B 'take, remove' (JArm. šᵉqal, Syr. šᵉqal, Mnd. ŠQL, Ug. šql; HALOT 1642). Hajouz 2013, 717 reads VE 1184 ti-iš-tá-qì-lum as /tištaqilum/ 'balance' (Gt nominal form) or /tištaqqilum/ (Dt), where Krebernik 1983, 42 has /tiṯtaḳḳilum/.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: šaqālu(m) 1 (HALOT 1642; AHw 1178); šiqlu 2 (CAD Š/3 96; AHw 1248) (gloss withheld)
- Eblaitic: ša-ga-lum /ṯaḳālum/ (VE 418, Kogan–Krebernik 2021b: 689 apud SEDonline 2030); ti-iš-da-gi-lum /tiṯtaḳḳilum/ (= Sum. lá-lá) (VE 1184; Krebernik 1983, 42; Civil 2017, 151); daš(TUKUₓ)-gul, cf. ša-ga-lum /ṯ-q-l/; ša-gú-um /ṯaqul/ (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 320–321) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: šāqal 1 (HALOT 1642); šeqel 2 (HALOT 1643) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: tᵉqal (HALOT 1642; DJPA 589a apud CAL)
- Punic: šql (HALOT 1642; T 330); šql 2 (HALOT 1642); šql (T 331); mšql (T 203); Neo-Punic yšql; šqlt (Krahmalkov 479) (gloss withheld)
- Mandaic Aramaic: mitqal (HALOT 652)
- Syrian Aramaic: təqal (LGz. 510; Payne Smith 618)
- Amorite: šql: šiqlum, šuqultum, šataqlum (Gelb AS 21, 33); ṯuqult: šu-gul-tum 2 (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 321) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: šql 2 (Krahmalkov 480); mšql (T 203) (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: teqal (T 330)
- Ugaritic: ṯql 2 (DULAT 914) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: teqel 2 (LGz. 578; DNWSI 1187); ttql (DNWSI 1187) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ṯaqula (HALOT 1642); ṯiql- 2 (BK 1, 230) (gloss withheld)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic ṯql (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 136); tṯql (Al-Jallad 2026, 157) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Geez: saqala (HALOT 1642) (gloss withheld)
- Tigre: saqla (HALOT 1642) (gloss withheld)
- Tigrinya: säqälä (LGz. 509) (gloss withheld)
- Amharic: säqqälä (LGz. 510) (LGz. 509) (gloss withheld)
- Harari: säqäla (LGz. 509) (gloss withheld)
- Gurage: säqälä (LGz. 509) (gloss withheld)

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