kandum

In view of the age of the word said to be borrowed from West Semitic in the form Aramaic כַּנְדָּא‎ (kandā, “vessel, pot; specifically for wine”), apparently not considering origin in Sanskrit कन्दु (kandu, “pot”) and ultimately Proto-Dravidian *kiṇṭV- (“pot”). Aramaic כּדּא‎ (kaddā) could have been later dissimilated, as the other Northwest Semitic languages only have in Ugaritic 𐎋𐎄 (kd), Hebrew כַּד‎ (kaḏ), Phoenician 𐤊𐤃‎ (kd).

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

kandum m (plural kandānu)

1. (Neo-Babylonian) a kandu jar, a container of earthenware or silver, mainly for wine

• kandu (non-mimated)

• “kandu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD), volume 8, K, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1971, pages 148–149
• Podolsky, Baruch (1998), “Notes on Hebrew Etymology”, in Schlomo Isre'el; Itamar Singer; Ran Zadok, editor, Past links: Studies in the languages and cultures of the ancient Near East (Israel Oriental studies; 18)‎, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, →ISBN, pages 199–200

• Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 33