# \*škt 'to be silent, quiet; to rest'

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

- Author's gloss: to be silent, still; rest
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%C5%A1/3250_to_be_silent_quiet_to_rest.md

## In Linear A

- [SE-KU-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-KU-TU/index.md>) (Šakūtu): personal name, 'Calm, at rest'; rival Zakūtu 'pure, innocent'

## Notes

PS *škt 'to be silent (?)' (Kogan 2015: 391 apud SEDonline 321). SEDonline 321 also sets here Tgr. šäktä 'to fall, to tumble; to be absent, to be lost' (WTS 223). Cf. 3136 *šqṭ 'to be at rest, be quiet'.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: sakātu (CAD S 74, AHw. 1011 apud SEDonline 321) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: skt (HALOT 756 apud SEDonline 321) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: škt (LSyr. 777, SL 1559 apud SEDonline 321) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: skt (Lane 1389 apud SEDonline 321) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Qat. s₁kt (LIQ 160 apud SEDonline 321) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Geez: sakata (CDG 497 apud SEDonline 321) (gloss withheld)

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