qqd

Tashelhit

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ăqqəd (“to burn, to cauterize”)[1], from earlier *ăwqəd, ultimately from Proto-Afroasiatic *w-q-d (“to burn”).

Cognate with Ghadames ăqqëd (“to cauterize”), Tamahaq eqqed (“to burn”), Tawellemmet and Tayert ëqqëd (“to burn”), Senhaja de Srair qqed (“to cauterize”), Central Atlas Tamazight qqed (“to cauterize, to burn”), Siwi qqed (“to light, to set alight”), Tarifit qqed (“to cauterize”), Tachawit qqed (“to be fired (pottery)”), Tarifit qqed (“to heal using fire”), and Proto-Semitic *wqd (“to burn”), whence Aramaic יקד (“to burn, to be burned”) & Arabic وَقَدَ (waqada, “to burn, to ignite”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qːd/

Verb

qqd (intensive aorist ttqqd, verbal noun uɣud, Tifinagh spelling ⵇⵇⴷ, Arabic spelling قّد)

  1. to heat
    Synonym: ssrɣ
  2. to set fire to light (a fire)
  3. to cauterize
  4. to cause a scandal

Derived terms

  • aɣad (“inferno, fire”)
  • iɣd (“ashes”)
  • uɣud (“cauterization, hot irons”)

References

  1. ^ The Reconstruction of Proto-Berber 'to say', reconstructing the iCiC Light Verbs and the reflexes of Pre-Proto-Berber *w
  • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 3 m—š (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/3) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1860
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