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*yḳṯ̣ - to wake
(Kogan 2015: 531)
Contra AHw. 28 and HALOT 431, there is probably no relationship between this root and Akk.
akāṣu
‘hartnäckig sein’,
akṣu
‘dangerous, overbearing, terrible’
Words
Ugaritic
yḳγ
- to be alert, pay attention
(DUL 976)
Hebrew
ḳyṣ
- to wake up
(HALOT 1098)
a byform of
yḳṣ
Hebrew
yḳṣ
- to awake
(HALOT 431)
Arabic
yqḏ̣
- to wake up; to be alert, to be not sleeping
(LA 7 527)
Sabaic
myḳṯ̣
- distress, affliction
(SD 169)
Soqotri
táḳiṭ
- II to awake (transitive)
(LS 444, CSOL I 675, CSOL II 610)