kakkû
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Variant: kakkuʾu
Meanings:
lentil
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fr:French: Français lentille
Distribution: OAkkOAkk: Old Akkadian (ca. 2350–2100 BCE), Ur IIIUr III: Ur III (ca. 2100–2000 BCE), OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD), OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD), MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NBNB: Neo Babylonian (ca. 1000–626 BCE), LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Domain: Food production and preparation; foodstuffs; domesticated plants; plants
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Logogram:
(ŠE.)GÚ.TUR
Reduplicated spellings (GÚ.TUR.TUR or GÚ.GÚ.TUR) attested in pre-OB sources may represent the pl.
Etymology: Cf. perhaps the Proto-Indo-European *kek-, *k'ik'-, kiker- “pea” (later “chickpea”); cf. Mikić 2012.
3Attestations
OA-LitOA-Lit: Old Assyrian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) kakkāʾum : addīšim kà-kà-a-am lā abārašši Fs. Larsen 100, 398 no. kt 90/k 178: 29 “I threw lentil(s) at her but I did not catch her”. Incant., see Michel 2004, 398. Pace Michel kakkāʾam rather than kakkam “weapon”, cf. the sequel: “I threw beer bread, thyme and salt at her”. new
MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šimka-ak-⸢ku⸣ StAT 5, 47: 6. new
MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) aklī ka-ak-ka-a u kamūna Tsukimoto 1999, 192ff.: 32 SEAL “eat lentils and cumin!” (in an incantation against fever). new