ṣīʾāḫu
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Variant: OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ṣīʾāku, ṣâḫu
Meanings:
to laugh
de:German: Deutsch lachen
Distribution: OAkkOAkk: Old Akkadian (ca. 2350–2100 BCE), OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards), MA onward(s)MA onward(s): Middle Assyrian onwards (ca. 1500 BCE onwards)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: ṣjḫII/j (mediae infirmae)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), GtnGtn-stem (G with tan-infix, iterative), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)
Etymology: Acc. to SED 1, 325 no. 70 probably connected with PSem. *ṣ̂ḥk/ṣ̂ḥq. Note, due to the phonological problems, further the PCSem. root *ṣjḥ, see Kogan 2015, 104.
2GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) tammaršuma libbaka i-ṣa-ak RA 101, 64: 24 (Gilg.) eBL “you will see him and your heart will laugh”.
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) libbī i-ṣí-ik CUSAS 10, 8: 2 (= ALL, 2) SEAL “my heart laughed”.
Discussion
The variant with k is probably not a result of spirantization but reflects a root variant also known from Aram. (d/gḥk) and Arab. (ḍḥk); see also Ug. and Hebr. ṣ/ẓ/śḥq, Eth. šḥq. Note that CUSAS 10, 8 has ṣí-ḫa-at l. 3 (directly following preceding iṣīk) and ṣí-ḫa-as-sà l. 13.