qaqqadum

From Proto-Semitic *qadqad-. Compare Biblical Hebrew קָדְקֹד (qɔḏqóḏ, “the top of the head”) and Ugaritic 𐎖𐎄𐎖𐎄 (qdqd, “the top of the head”).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈqaq.qa.dum/

qaqqadum m (plural qaqqadātum f) (from Old Akkadian on)

1. head
2. person, self
3. leading person
4. upper part, top
5. (finance) capital, principal (amount)

• qaqqadu (non-mimated)

• → Old Armenian: գագաթն (gagatʻn)

• Muss-Arnolt, William (1905) A Concise Dictionary of the Assyrian Language, volume II, Berlin: Reuther & Reichard, pages 923–924
• “qaqqadu”, 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) “qaqqadu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library