Proto-Semitic root

*ʕnk

‘closure (of a door), fastening, barring’

di Mino’s gloss: closing, bolting of a door

Record 4414 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor

In Linear A1 entry

TA-NI-KATaʿnakuTaanach (place name)SpeculativeSemitic2

Notes

HALOT 1769 reports both Arabic words for Taanach, after Gesenius and Boehmer, and calls them equally questionable.

Reflexes2 languages

Northwest Semitic1

  • HebrewTaʿnak (Taanach), place name, taqtal of the root per Boehmer (HALOT 1769)

Arabic1

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

Linear A Lexicon