*406VAS

Status: proposed. A proposed value.

Evidence: the rider KE needs an unattested *kēs; the attested forms are kâsu, ks, kōs

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Note

Pictographic vessel ideogram. Always appears with +KE phonetic complement on HT26 (both sides, as tablet header). Bare form *406-VS on HT93a (alongside DA-RI-DA, qty 2). KE complement indicates initial syllable of vessel word: PS *kaʾs- "vessel for beer, bowl" → NWS *kēs (vowel fronting from medial aleph) → KE. KA-SI on HTWa1027 nodule may be the syllabic spelling of the same word (skeleton k-s, distance 0.000).

Lexicon words written with this sign