Proto-Aramaic *mlk ‘to advise’ is not attested in the Old Aramaic inscriptions, but common in later dialects. There is no other WS langugage which would display such a meaning: throughout WS, the root *mlk is associated with kingship (so in Aramaic as well) and/or possession. The meaning ‘to advise, to conseaľ is characteristic of Akk. malāku and milku. The possibility of an early Akkadism in Aramaic (perhaps beginning with the widespread noun *milk- ‘counsel, advice, plan’) lies at hand, but is not recognized (or even mentioned) either in the standard dictionaries or in Kaufman 1974 (Kogan 2015:419, with fn. 1202).