# \*qVṭVʿ- 'cut', 'finish, be finished', 'be spent'

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

- Author's gloss: to cut off, sever, divide; cease, end
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/add28e9473c07931be80fd0b364181739fc5519a/wiki/semitic-roots/q/K0337_cut_finish_be_finished_be_spent.md

## In Linear A

- [I-QA-\*118](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-QA-*118/index.md>) (iqṭaʿ): divide! (imperative of √q-ṭ-ʿ), heading over mixed commodities
- [QA-\*118-SA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-*118-SA/index.md>) (qaṭʿ-ša): its portion (a measured share); rival qadaša 'holy portion'

## Notes

Akk -t- < *-ṭ- because of the incompatibility of two emphatics.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: qatû (CAD Q 177) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Aramaic: QṬʿ (Aramaic Root Atlas; CAL s.v. qṭʿ) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root qṭʿ]
- Syrian Aramaic: qṭaʕ (Payne Smith 501; HALOT 1124) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: qəṭaʿ, Pa. qaṭṭaʿ (Jastrow 1351; HALOT 1124; DJPA 487b apud CAL) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: MHeb. qāṭaʿ (Jastrow 1351); II qṣʿ, pu. məquṣṣāʿôt (Ex 26:23; HALOT 1124) (gloss withheld)
- Ugaritic: qṣʿt, < *qṭʿ (DULAT 705) (gloss withheld)
- Mandaic Aramaic: gṭa (DM 87) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: qaṭaʕa 'cut'; qṭʕ 'be spent' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root qṭʿ]

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab qṣʿ (Biella 464); qṣʿ, mqṣʿ (SD 109) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: ḳáwṭa; mǝḳṭāt (Rubin 2018 150, 828) (gloss withheld)

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