kanāku

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Meanings:
to seal
de:German: Deutsch (ver)siegeln
fr:French: Français sceller
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: knkIII – a/ua/u class (Present a, Preterite u)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)
41. NB colophons

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana ka-nak KÁ id[di]n Cavigneaux 1981, 43 no. 22: 3 “he gave (the tablet) for sealing at the gate”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana gunnu ka-NIK [KÁ] iqīš Cavigneaux 1981, 60 no. 106: 4 “he presented (the tablet) to the gunnu for sealing at [the gate]”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ina gunnu ana ka-na-ku K[Á] Cavigneaux 1981, 42 no. 21: 7 “in the gunnu for sealing at the ga[te]”. cf. ka-na-ki (ibid. 68 no. 153: 5). new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana ka-nak-ku KÁ ukīn AOAT 275, 476 BM 64479 r. v 13 eBL “he deposited (the tablet) for sealing at the gate”. cf. [k]a-nak-ki (Cavigneaux 1981, 51 no. 65: 3). new

For further references see Cavigneaux 1981, 123 and passim in Cavigneaux 1981. It is uncertain whether the above references from first millennium colophons, often alongside gunnu, gunû , belong here. Cavigneaux 1981, 123f. suggests a Sum. loanword < kan₄-ak “the one of the gate”, i.e. “gatekeeper”. Cf. also the NB family name Kānik-bābi (cf. Wunsch 2014, 306), perhaps “sealer at the gate”.
52. Further Attestations

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) G. aššum … bāb UR.MAḪ ka-na-⸢ki⸣-i[m] ARM 33, 125: 7 ARCHIBAB “concerning the sealing of the Lion's gate”. The text is concerned with bricks, suggesting that k. here refers to building activity. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) G. ina kunukkija u kunuk mārī kārim bītam ni-ik-nu-uk FM 2, 130: 20 ARCHIBAB “we sealed the house with my seal and the seal of the sons of the merchants' area”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) D. bīssu ú-ka-ni-ik FM 2, 130: 8 ARCHIBAB “I sealed his house”. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ak-nu-uk appam u ḫasīsam ak-nu-uk šipīʾātim ša muḫḫišu ša DNf ú!(I)-ra-am-mu-šu AML, 114: 13 SEAL “I sealed the nose and the ear. I sealed the sutures of his skull, that DN had loosened”. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) nēšum annīʾum ka-ni-ik zāʾer PN ina qabê DN šumšu RIMA 1, 66 no. no. 2001: 3 “this lion, its name is ‘Sealer of the enemy of PN by the command of Ištar’”.

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