Nir Cohen:
Instead of $KN meaning “to dwell”, it may mean “to rule”. In Amarna
Letters EA 256: 9 and 362: 69, the Akkadian word for “magistrate” is
alternatively rendered by the west Semitic word su-ki-ni or su-ki-na, where
the
consonants are %KN. Thus an archaic meaning of $KN might be “to rule” or “to
be the magistrate over”, instead of the later meaning of “to dwell”. If
the -WN ending is an archaic-style ending, that might make this archaic
meaning more likely.
Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois
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