Proto-Semitic root

*sākin-

‘administrator, prefect, governor’

di Mino’s gloss: administrator, governor, prefect

In Linear A2 entries

*47-KU-NAsōkinaprefect, administrator (heading of a wine issue)SpeculativeSemitic1 SI-KI-NESikinetstewardess or female administratorCandidateSemitic1

Notes

A G participle of *skn ‘to be of use, take care of’ (HALOT 755; DULAT 746). Akkadian sākinu corresponds to šakin māti ‘controller of territory’, of 2776 *šakVn- ‘to place, set’ (HALOT 755); DULAT 746 sets OB šaknu ‘governor’ apart as a cf.

Reflexes7 languages

East Semitic1

Akkadiansākinu (HALOT 755)gloss withheld

Northwest Semitic6

Ugariticskn (DULAT 746)gloss withheld
Hebrewsōkēn (HALOT 755)gloss withheld
Phoenicianskn (KAI 1.2) (Krahmalkov 342)gloss withheld
Emarsà-kin /sākinu/ (Pentiuc 2001, 155–156)gloss withheld
Canaanitesú-ki-ni, sú-ki-na /sōkin/, gloss on rābiṣu (EA) (HALOT 755; Sanmartín GlOS 2, 243)gloss withheld
Aramaicskn (DNWSI 785)gloss withheld

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.