# GRA+KU

> kunāšu 'emmer wheat' (logographic abbreviation)

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

- Reading: none proposed
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*kunaṯ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1604/index.md>) 'emmer'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: GRA · KU (ku)
- Rank: #60 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: polyglot [ÁŠ = ku-na]-šu = ku-sú-mu 'emmer' (GlOS 1, 323)

## Attestations

- [HT 61](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT61/index.md>): MI-TI GRA+KU 6
- [HT 128a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT128a/index.md>): WA-TU-MA-RE GRA+KU 12
- [HT 128b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT128b/index.md>): GRA+KU 6

## Commentary

GRA with the KU adjunct, 7 tokens on three Haghia Triada tablets: HT 61 MI-TI · GRA+KU 6, HT 128a WA-TU-MA-RE GRA+KU 12 and twice more, beside GRA+PA as a distinct grain subtype, and HT 128b. KU, the onset of kunāšu 'emmer' (CAD K 536), written in full as KU-NI-SU, Nuzi ku-ni-šu. The Ugarit polyglot gives Akkadian ku-na]-šu beside Hurrian ut-te and Ugaritic ku-sú-mu (GlOS 1, 323). See KU-NI-SU.

## Same root

- [KU-NI-SU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-NI-SU/index.md>) (kunīšu)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 1; CAD K
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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