lakû I
REVIEW
Meanings:
weak; infant
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
1 Lexical
MB-LexMB-Lex: Middle Babylonian lexical texts [… = š] erru, ṣaḫru, la-a-ku-u Emar 6/1, 340 Msk. 74132u ii 5 DCCLT “baby, child, infant”. ∥ [la]-⸢a⸣-ku ib. 7.
Discussion
Farber 1989, 136-138 argues for lakû, laḫû and laʾû as variants of the same word. However, laḫû is not a separate word but an orthographic variant of laʾû (see Streck 2022, §2.154 for /ʾ/ spelled ḫ in OB). Therefore, it seems difficult to accept a word laḫû as origin of both laʾû and lakû. It seems more likely that lakû and laḫ/ʾû were occasionally confused by scribes and thus occur in similar contexts.