# \*sākin- 'administrator, prefect, governor'

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

- Author's gloss: administrator, governor, prefect
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/s/3842_administrator_prefect_governor.md

## In Linear A

- [\*47-KU-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*47-KU-NA/index.md>) (sōkina): prefect, administrator (heading of a wine issue); rivals mōgun- 'regalement, gift', Dagan
- [SI-KI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-KI-NE/index.md>) (Sikinet): stewardess or female administrator; compare masculine prefect/commissioner

## 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.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: sākinu (HALOT 755) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: skn (DULAT 746) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: sōkēn (HALOT 755) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: skn (KAI 1.2) (Krahmalkov 342) (gloss withheld)
- Emar: sà-kin /sākinu/ (Pentiuc 2001, 155–156) (gloss withheld)
- Canaanite: sú-ki-ni, sú-ki-na /sōkin/, gloss on rābiṣu (EA) (HALOT 755; Sanmartín GlOS 2, 243) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: skn (DNWSI 785) (gloss withheld)

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