Summary
The root q-ṣ-ṣ unites narration and tracking: قصَّ الخبر = he told the news, قصَّ الأثر = he followed the trail; القاصّ = the informer-narrator who both traces and tells. The Troy dossier's node ط-٥ reads Κασσάνδρα (Cassandra) on this root — grade ج — as "the teller who is not believed," noting that the contrived Greek school-etymologies (from kekasmai) signal the name's opacity to the Greeks themselves. (المصدر: raw/greek/طروادة_عقد_جذور.md)
Attested Forms
| Language | Form | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | qaṣṣa | to narrate; to track |
| Arabic | qāṣṣ / qiṣṣa(t) | narrator / story |
| Hebrew | (cf.) qāṣaṣ | to cut — the cutting/segmenting register of the root family |
| Greek (proposed) | Κασσάνδρα | Cassandra (grade ج) |
Sound Changes
- q → k (standard)
- ṣṣ (geminate emphatic) → Greek -σσ-, the doubling mirroring the Semitic gemination (المصدر: raw/greek/طروادة_عقد_جذور.md)
Entities Using This Root
- Cassandra — القاصّة: the seeress who traces what is coming and tells it, unbelieved; her second name Alexandra pairs her with her brother (Paris)
Semantic Evolution
Physical tracking (following footprints) → verbal tracking (recounting a sequence of events) → the professionalized teller (qāṣṣ) and the genre (qiṣṣa). The Cassandra reading fuses the two poles: prophecy as tracking the trail forward. (المصدر: raw/greek/طروادة_عقد_جذور.md)