# \*kVsVy- 'cover'

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

- Author's gloss: to cover, conceal, clothe; covering
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/k/K0104_cover.md

## In Linear A

- [JA-KI-SI-KI-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-KI-SI-KI-NU/index.md>) (yaksīkin): May he cover you (f. pl.)! (3ms G imperfect yaksī + 2fp object suffix -kin; NU writes the final nasal, as in -U-TI-NU)
- [MI-KI-SE-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MI-KI-SE-NA/index.md>) (miksēna): coverings, blankets

## Notes

HALOT 487 compares Akk. kašû 'to cover' (CAD K 294), with š against Hebrew s. Noun kusītu, kǝsūt 'garment, covering': 1317.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Eblaitic: gú-za-u₉ /kuSāy/ (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 325) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Aramaic: KSY (Aramaic Root Atlas; DNWSI 523) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ksy]
- Hebrew: kasah 'cover' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ksy]
- Ugaritic: ksy 'cover' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ksy]
- Amorite: ksy (Huffmon APNM 222); k-s-y: ik-zu-el/il, mu-ka-sa-a-je-em, ia-ak-sí-ia (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 325) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: ksā 'cover, conceal; clothe, protect' (Payne Smith 220)
- Phoenician: ksy (T 146) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: mksʾ (T 176) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ksw (HALOT 487)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: ksw (HALOT 487)

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