Reconstruction:Proto-West Semitic/katip-

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This Proto-West Semitic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Semitic

Etymology

Also Proto-Semitic if Akkadian (katappātu, a certain part of an animal's breast, the sternum or some ribs), which however can be drawn to the Sumerianisms (katappû, bridle, halter) and (katappum, being of a certain kind of material) and also has a variant ḫaltappātu, belongs here.

Noun

*katip- f

  1. shoulder

Descendants

References

  • Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2000) “*kat(i)p-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volumes I: Anatomy of Man and Animals, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 138–139 No. 154