# I-KA (ʾikkār)

> farmer, plowman (recipient)

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

- Reading: ʾikkār
- 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: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · KA (ka)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *ikkarum* — ikkarum 'farmer, farm laborer, plowman' (Huehnergard 1997, glossary)
- Hebrew: אִכָּר *ʾikkār* — ʾikkār (אִכָּר) 'farmer, agricultural worker' (HALOT 47)
- Syriac: *ʾakkārā* — ʾakkārā 'farmer, husbandman, plowman'

## Attestations

- [HT 91](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT91/index.md>): I-KA \*326 GRA .3 — farmer, plowman (recipient in grain and commodity lists)
- [HT 102](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT102/index.md>): I-KA 5 — farmer(s): 5

## Commentary

HT 91 opens with I-KA over grain and small rations of oil, olives, figs and wine; HT 102 I-KA 5 (KA dotted) in a grain ledger, KU-RO 1060 after SA-RA₂ GRA 976. ʾikkār 'farmer': Akk. ikkaru 'plowman, farmer' (CAD I/J 49), Heb. ʾikkār, a loan from it (HALOT 47), Syr. ʾakkārā; the geminate and final r unwritten. Rival: the personal name Ikkaru (ORACC QPN). Two attestations. See I-KI-RA and A-KI-RO.

## Same root

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

## In the onomasticon

- [I-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/I-KA/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD I/J; HALOT
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- Huehnergard, John (1997), A Grammar of Akkadian. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 45)
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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

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