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From mPers katḫʷatāi, a ‘village chief, or representative of a landowner among the farmers’. While Vollers1896 assumes Turkish (ketḫüdā ‘vulg. kâhyā, kyāya 1. A steward in a great man’s household, also a manager of a farm or estate. 2. A warden of a guild. 3. A bailiff of a village or ward. 4. An officious meddler’ – Redhouse1890) as a mediator for the word (which obviously is a form particular of Tunisian), Eilers mentions also another chain of tradition (without naming its details), one that resulted in a form with ḫ‑ rather than h: kāḫiyaẗ (often shortened into kiḫyaẗ) ‘butler, steward’. Eilers believes kāhiyaẗ‑ to be the etymon of the items of ↗√KHY that are listed below in the DERIV section. But would that be likely? We have to consider that iktahà is already ClassAr, cf. entry in WKAS‑ (sources mentioned there: Fāʔiq II 212 paen. / Bǧ. 438,2 = Nih. IV 41,11).

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► ^†kāhà , vb. III, gloriatus fuit (Freytag): “könnte vom Prahlen mit dem [kihāyaẗ ] Amte kommen” (Eilers).
► ^†iktahà , vb. VIII, to respect, honour, (WKAS) ʔaǧalla, ʕaẓama, iḥtašama : < ‘to pay reverence to s.o., respect’? (Eilers).
► kihāyaẗ, n.f., administrative district (formerly, Tun.): office, position of a kāhiyaẗ.
► ^†al-ʔakhāʔ n.pl., hommes de talent: perhaps simply ‘the kāhiya s’

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