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*ḳVdḳVd- - skull
(SED I No. 159)
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Akkadian
ḳaḳḳadu
- head
(CAD Q 100, AHw. 899)
Ebla
gag-gú-tum /ḳaḳḳudum/
- = Sum. SAGxIGI
(VE 267, Krebernik 1983: 12)
Ugaritic
ḳdḳd
- skull, crown
(DUL 694)
Hebrew
ḳodḳōd
- skull
(HALOT 1071)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
ḳwdḳd
- head, skull
(DJPA 478)
Samaritan
ḳdḳd
- head, leader
(DSA 758)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
ḳodḳədā
- head, skull, vertex
(Jastrow 1317)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
ḳwdḳdˀ
- skull
(DJBA 989)
Mlaḥso
kotke
- skull
(J Mlaḥ. 180])
Problematic. Can it be eventually from *ḳVdḳVd-?
Arabic
maqadd-, muqadd-
- part of the back of the neck that is between the ears
(BK 2 683, Lane 2492)
Harari
ēḳäd
- front, forward, chief, head
(EDH 30)
<*ˀV-ḳad, with a prefixed element