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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘¹firm, just, right; ²to be, become’) Akk ¹kēnu, Hbr ¹kēn, Syr ¹kēnā, Gz ²kṓna yékūn.
▪ DRS 10 (2012) #KWN-1 Akk kānu, kuānu ‘être stable, ferme, solide, droit’, Ug kn ‘exister’, mknt ‘place’, yknn ‘il crée’, Phoen kn ‘exister’, Hbr hekīn ‘dresser, placer, disposer, décider’, mākān ‘station, place’, nākōn ‘être droit, raide’, kēn ‘oui’, Aram kān ‘arriver, être’, oAram ʔkyn, JP kēn, Syr ʔakēn, hākan ‘ainsi’, Ar kāna ‘être’, makān ‘lieu, demeure’, Ṣaf kʔn [= kāʔin] ‘imminent’, Sab Qat kwn ‘devenir, être, avoir lieu, survenir’; Sab ‘soutenir qn’, *hkn ‘faire arriver qc, ordonner, décréter’, Qat škn ‘imposer une punition’, kwn, Sab mknt ‘statut légal, siège; domaine agricole’, Sab Qat mknt ‘chambre sainte dans un temple’, Gz kōna ‘arriver, se produire, devenir’, Tña kōna ‘être’, Gz makān, Tña mäḫʷan ‘lieu’, Amh honā ‘devenir’, huneta ‘situation, état condition’ ; Te ʔaḱōn ‘place, lieu’, Gaf hona, Har ḫāna, Gur Sod kʷänä, Go hʷänä, Ča ḫärä ‘être, devenir’. – Tña kunät ‘circonstance’, kuntat ‘condition, situation’.

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▪ Bergsträsser1928: The Ar verb is of Sem origin, but there is only one cognate with the same meaning ‘to be, become’ as in Ar: Gz kṓna yékūn. In other languages the cognate signifies ‘strong, firm, right, just’: Akk kēnu, Hbr kēn, Aram kēnā.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Sargon, from Hbr sargôn, from Akk šarru-kīn ‘the king is true, legitimate’, from šarru ‘king’, and kīn, predicate form of kīnu, vb.adj. of kânu ‘to be(come) firm, true’, akin to Ar kāna.

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►kawwana, vb. II, 1 to make, create, produce, originate, bring forth, bring into being, form, shape, fashion; 2 (MġrAr) to educate, train: D‑stem, caus.
►^BP#2630takawwana, vb. V, 1a to be created, be formed; 1b to come into existence, form, arise, develop; 2 to be composed, made up, be formed, consist (of): Dt‑stem, refl./pass. of II (D).

►^BP#739kawn, pl. ʔakwān, n., being, esse; event, occurrence, incident; al‑kawn, the existing, reality; the world; the cosmos, the universe
►^BP#⁴⁷³⁹kawnī, adj., cosmic, relating to the universe: nisba formation of kawn.
►^BP#1942kiyān, n., 1 being, esse; 2 existence; 3 essence, substance; nature; entity, a being
►al‑yakūn, n.det., the sum total: nominalized 3.sg.impv.
►^BP#179makān, pl. ʔamākinᵘ, ʔamkinaẗ, n., 1 place; 2 position: n.loc.
►^BP#2116makānaẗ, n.f., position, standing, status, reputation: n.loc.f.
►makānī, adj., local: nisba formation, from makān.
►makāniyyaẗ, n.f., spatiality (philos.): abstract formation in ‑iyyaẗ.
►^BP#1936takwīn, n., 1 creating; 2 educating; 3 structure: vn. II.
►takawwun, n., 1 genesis, birth, nascency, origin, incipience, rise, development; 2 formation: vn. V.
►^BP#2439kāʔin, 1 existing, located; 2 pl. ‑āt, n., creature: PA I.
►^BP#2618mukawwin, n., 1 creator; – 2 pl. ‑āt, component; formative, constituent; factor, element: PA II.
►^BP#2831mukawwan, adj., composed, consisting (of): PP II.

▪ For a distinct set of meanings, cf. ↗√KYN.

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