ܕܰܣܬܩܳܐ dstqʾ dastqā handle, hilt
Allotrope: ܐܹܣܬܩܵܐ ʾstqʾ estqā
MP dastag; NP dasta a handle, helve, haft (Steingass 525); a derivative of MP, NP dast hand, OP dasta- hand, Av. zasta-, OInd. hásta- id. (Horn 126); Arm. LW dastak "Handwurzel" (loan translation of Gr. καρπός: Bolognesi 1960, 8; Hübschmann AG 135, no. 168). — Talm. Aram. dstqʾ handle, hilt (Telegdi 240, 55). LS suggests that ʾstqʾ is an erroneous interpretation of dstqʾ, with apheresis or dissimilation of d-; in fact, it is a wrong analysis of the foreign word, whose first element was reinterpreted as the Syriac morpheme d- (Nöldeke 1898 § 205) ● dstqʾ Rgn β 23, 10 (conj. Lorsbach); BA 1086; BB 585, 10; ʾstqʾ 2Sm 23, 10; Duv B 2, 294, n 1; Bhcar 115u; EN 41, 19; BA 1068; BB 244, 3 ◆ LS 161a; Lagarde GA 33, 83