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*ḥVnVk-, *ḥink- - palate
(SED I No. 124; Kogan 2015: 84)
Words
Hebrew
ḥēk
- palate
(HALOT 313)
Official Aramaic
ḥnk
- palate
(DNWSI 388)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
ḥk
- palate
(DJPA 200)
det. ḥykh ‘palate’
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
ḥikkā
- palate
(Jastrow 455)
Syriac
ḥenkā, ḥekkā, ḥunkā
- palate
(LSyr. 244)
-u- in ḥunkā remains unexplained.
Mandaic
hinka
- palate, throat
(DM 147)
Arabic
ḥanak-
- palate, soft palate
(Lane 659)
Geez
ḥanaka
- to munch, to chew, to eat
(CDG 237)
The nominal root itself is not attested in EthS, but the semantic shift “palate” > “to munch,” “to chew” is unproblematic
Tigre
ḥanäk
- palate
(WTS 84)
an Arabism? Cf. [Leslau Loanwords 166]
Mehri
ḥənnūk
- gum and palate
(ML 183)
Jibbali
ḥónúk
- gum and all the palate
(JL 112)
Harsusi
ḥénnek
- palate and uvula
(HL 60)
pl. ḥenōket