takālum

A diachronically secondary verb going back to Proto-Semitic *wakāl- (“to trust, entrust, rely”). Compare Arabic وَكَلَ (wakala, “to entrust, assign, charge”) and Biblical Hebrew יָכֹל (yɔḵól, “to be able, have power”).

• IPA^(key): /taˈkaː.lum/

takālum (G, a, durative itakkal, perfect ittakal, preterite itkal, imperative takal) (from Old Akkadian on)

1.  to trust, rely, put one's faith on

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   [awīlum ša takālim ula ibašši]

   There is no man who can be trusted.

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   [aššum alpim atkalakkum-ma alpam ul ašām]

   Concerning the ox, I relied on you and did not buy the ox.

• takālu (non-mimated)

• “takālu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
• Black, Jeremy; George, Andrew; Postgate, Nicholas (2000), “takālu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library