# A-KI-RO (ʾAkiru)

> ʾAkiru (personal name; Amorite ʾAkir-, cf. ʾikkār 'plowman')

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ʾAkiru
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʾkr 1, \*ʾa/ikkār- 2](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1810/index.md>) 'to cultivate' 1, 'laborer' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · KI (ki) · RO (ro)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: ʾAKIR-UM, A-KI-RU-UM (KISURRA B 7+); ʾAKIR-I, A-KI-RI (VAS VIII 14 37); ʾAKIR-AH, A-KI-RA, FN (Gelb 1980 nos. 338–340)
- Hebrew: *ʾikkār* — ʾikkār 'plowman, farmer' (Jer 51:23; Amos 5:16)
- Akkadian: *ikkaru* — ikkaru 'plowman, farm laborer; farmer', Sum. lw. (CAD I/J s.v.)

## Attestations

- [ARKH 4b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH4b/index.md>): A-KI-RO 3

## Commentary

ARKH 4b .4 A-KI-RO 3, after the numeral ]9 that closes the entry of .3–4 and before ZA-SI-ZU[ ]3, in a list of whole-number entries with no logogram on the face (GORILA III 14–15). Intact and undotted. A-KI-RO spells the Amorite A-KI-RU-UM, A-KI-RI and A-KI-RA sign for sign (Gelb 1980, nos. 338–340), RO for the case vowel; Gelb lists the names, and the noun ʾikkār 'plowman' behind them is di Mino's reading. Rivals: the Akkadian name Ikkaru; A + KI-RO 'owed'. See I-KI-RA and I-KA.

## Same root

- [I-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-KA/index.md>) (ʾikkār)
- [I-KI-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-KI-RA/index.md>) (ikkara)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-KI-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-KI-RO/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- CAD I/J: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1960), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 7, I and J. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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