# \*kV 'like, as, in the manner of'

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

- Author's gloss: like, as; according to
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/k/3266_like_as_in_the_manner_of.md

## In Linear A

- [KA-\*305](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-*305/index.md>) (ka-ḏā): thus, likewise (ditto heading)

## Notes

PS *kV 'like, in the manner of' (Arakelova 2001: 16 apud SEDonline 1387). Akk. kî as a preposition is poetic (OB) (SEDonline 1387). Cf. K0095 *kVmVw- 'like' (SEDonline 1389), K0090 *kī 'that, because', 3421 *kV- 'with'.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: kî (CAD K 322, AHw. 468 apud SEDonline 1387) (gloss withheld)
- Eblaitic: /ki/: (-)gi(-) in names, e.g. gi-a-du, gi-ì-lum; /kay/: (=)ga(=) in names, e.g. ga-ʔà-du, ga-da-mu (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 293) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: k (DULAT 415–416; SEDonline 1387) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: k (Tomback 1978: 136 apud SEDonline 1387) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: kə (HALOT 453 apud SEDonline 1387) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: ka/kī (Buck 2019, 328); ka: ka-zu-ra-DINGIR, ka-zu-ri-ḫa-la, a-ḫu-ka-a-bi; ki: a-ḫi-ki-li-im, a-bi-mi-ki-DINGIR, ia-wi-ki-ìl; kām(m)a: an-nu-ka-ma-bi, bu-nu-ka-ma-i-la, bi-ka-ma-DINGIR/el (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 293) (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: kə (HALOT BArm. s.v. כְּ) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ka- (BK 2 849, Lane 2581 apud SEDonline 1387) (gloss withheld)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic k (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 89) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab. k- (SD 76 apud SEDonline 1387); Qat. k- (LIQ 83 apud SEDonline 1387) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- East Ethiopic: Sel. Wol. ko (EDG 332 apud SEDonline 1387) (gloss withheld)
- Gurage: End. Enn. Gye. xä, Sod. ko (EDG 332 apud SEDonline 1387) (gloss withheld)

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