alākum

Akkadian

Root
'-l-k
4 terms

From Proto-Semitic *halak- (“to go”). Cognate with Arabic هَلَكَ (halaka, “to perish, die”) and Biblical Hebrew הָלַךְ (hɔláḵ, “to go”).

alākum (G, a-i, durative illak, perfect ītalak, preterite īlik, imperative alik)

to go, move, proceed
to come
to move about, walk about
to live, behave, act
to serve, to do do service
to be loose, movable, displaced
to fluctuate (prices), run (water), burn, go (fire), blow (wind), fall (rain), trail (smoke), come, pass (time), run (road)
to fit, be meant for

Conjugation
Infinitive		alākum
Participle		ālikum
Adjective		alkum
Active		Durative	Perfect	Preterite	Imperative
1.sg		allak	ātalak	ālik	lūlik
2.sg	m	tallak	tātalak	tālik	alik
2.sg	f	tallakī	tātalkī	tālikī	alkī
3.sg		illak	ītalak	īlik	līlik
1.pl		nillak	nītalak	nīlik	i nīlik
2.pl		tallakā	tātalkā	tālikā	alkā
3.pl	m	illakū	ītalkū	īlikū	līlikū
3.pl	f	illakā	ītalkā	īlikā	līlikā
This table gives Old Babylonian inflection. For conjugation in other dialects, see Appendix:Akkadian dialectal conjugation.

Cuneiform spellings
Logograms	Phonetic
𒁺 (DU)	𒀀𒆷𒆪𒌝 (a-la-ku-um)