▪
DRS 10 (2012)#Kʔ/WS: »La forme étymologique est-elle
kaʔs… ou
kās ? Edzard a suggéré que
kaʔs serait secondaire, analogique de
raʔs.
▪ Jeffrey1938, 245-6: »It is found only in early passages in descriptions of the pleasures of Paradise. – This is not a SSem word, as it is entirely lacking in Eth [Gz] and without a root and of uncertain pl. in Ar. There can thus be little doubt of its Aram origin.
1
– The Hbr word is
kōs, while in the Ras Shamra texts we have
ks, and in Aram
kwsʔ,
ksʔ, and
kwzʔ (cf. Arab
kūz), and Syr
kāsā.
2
As the Syr
kāsā seems to be the source of the Pers
kāseh 3
, we may take it as most probable that the Ar also was borrowed at an early period
4
from the same source.«
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#1401 reconstructs Sem *
kaʔs‑ ‘vessel for beerbowl’, WCh *
kwac‑ ‘kind of drum’ (contracted from *
kaʔwac‑), CCh *
kwac‑ (contraction from *
kaʔwac‑ ?) ‘quiver’. As an AfrAs ancestor the authors reconstruct AfrAs *
kaʔoc‑ ‘vessel’.
▪ TB2007 reconstruct: Sem *
kaʔs- ¹‘vessel for beer’, ²‘bowl’, Eg
k3s ‘vessel’, WCh *
k˅ʔwac‑ ‘¹kind of a drum; ²gourd-dipper’, ECh *
k˅-k˅s‑ ‘pot, mug’, all from AfrAs *
kaʔ/wac- ‘vessel, receptacle’