# \*ṭVqVʿ- 'sound'

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

- Author's gloss: to strike, sound a horn, clap; drive in a peg
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%E1%B9%AD/K0842_sound.md

## In Linear A

- [TI-DI-TE-QA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-DI-TE-QA-TI/index.md>) (tidī teqaʿti): 'fix it, you have fastened it' (of the pin); rival Tidiʿ-Teqaʿt, personal name 'Teqaʿt knows', after one of the Kotharat

## Notes

Leslau takes tqʿ as original, ṭqʿ by assimilation (LGz. 595).

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: tāqaʿ (LGz. 595; HALOT 1785) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: təqaʿ (LGz. 595; CAL s.v. tqʿ)
- Judaic Aramaic: tᵉqaʿ (HALOT 1785)
- Ugaritic: tqʿ (HALOT 1785); tqʿt /Tāqiʿatu/, act. ptc. f. G, a kṯrt goddess (KTU 1.24:49; DULAT 862) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: (Syria) ṭaqaʿ (LGz. 595) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Geez: ṭaqʿa 'sound' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ṭqʿ]
- Tigre: ṭaqʿa (LGz. 595) (gloss withheld)
- Tigrinya: ṭäqʿe (LGz. 595) (gloss withheld)
- Amharic: ṭäqqa (LGz. 595) (gloss withheld)

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