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*dgš - to pierce, to stab ? (EDA II)

Akkadian
dakāšu - to pierce (CAD D 34)

With *g > k before š.

Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
dgš - to provide with dagesh (DJPA 139)
Syriac
dgaš - punctured (LSyr. 142)
Mandaic
dgaša - stabbing (MD 102)
Arabic
dqs - to strike hard (Behnstedt 383)

In Yemenite dialects. May be related, cf. also meaning ‘sink inland’ (BK 1 717)

Tigre
däḳsa - to pulverize (WTS 525)

May be related.

Tigrinya
dägʷäsä - to decorate a leather bookbinding by imprinting, incising or making strokes (TED 2163)

Cf. also  däḳḳʷ ‘to pound, to grind to a power’ (TED 2107).

Amharic
däggʷäsä - to cover a book cover, scabbard or saddle with leather; to affix metal decorations along a sword scabbard; to make designs on a book cover or on jewelry with a metal tool (AED 1832)

Cf. also däḳḳʷ “to grind or crush into a fine powder” (AED 1767)