PWS

*ḥVnVk-, *ḥink- - palate (SED I No. 124; Kogan 2015: 84)

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