Proto-Semitic root
*kad-
‘mug’
di Mino’s gloss: jar, pitcher
Record 319 ↗ · SED semet 276 · Basis: SED
In Linear A1 entry
Notes
Akkadian kandu ‘container of earthenware or silver, mainly for wine’ NB, WSem. word (CAD K 148; HALOT 460). Borrowed as Greek κάδος, Latin cadus ‘jug, pitcher’, chiefly for wine (Rendsburg 2026, 213).
Reflexes5 languages
Northwest Semitic4
- Ugaritickd¹ /kaddu/ (Huehnergard 2012, 149)gloss withheld
- Phoeniciankd (Krahmalkov 224)gloss withheld
- Hebrewkad (Rendsburg 2026, 213)gloss withheld
- Aramaickd, pl. kddn (DNWSI 487)gloss withheld
Arabic1
- Arabickadd, Yemeni (Tāj 9:101)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.