# I-KU-RI-NA (ʾiqurna)

> at the horn, the promontory (place name)

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

- Reading: ʾiqurna
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ḳarn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1959/index.md>) 'horn' 1, 'to fight, oppose' 2, 'to guard' 3
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · KU (ku) · RI (ri) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *qeren* — qeren 'horn', and of a hill in qeren ben-šāmen 'a fertile hill', Isa 5:1 (HALOT 1144)
- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎗𐎐 *qrn* — qrn 'horn' (DULAT 700)
- Akkadian: *qarnu* — qarnu 'horn, ... protruding part' (CAD Q 134)
- Phoenician: 𐤒𐤓𐤍 *qrn* — qrn 'horn' (Krahmalkov 432); Carne, a city in Phoenicia named from it (Krahmalkov 433)

## Attestations

- [HT 90](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT90/index.md>): I-KU-RI-NA — at the horn (toponym heading)

## Commentary

HT 90 (Haghia Triada): heads a distribution of GRA 20 and OLE+DI 3. i-k-r-n: ʾi- 'at' with √q-r-n, 'at the horn', a promontory toponym; KA-RO-NA on HT 11a has the same k-r-n. A preposition would govern the genitive qarni, not -NA (Fischer 2002, §292), so I-KU-RI-NA is a fixed place name, not a phrase. Rival: a personal name on √q-r-n. One attestation.

## Same root

- [KA-RO-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-RO-NA/index.md>) (Qarna)
- [KA-RI-\*310-I](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-RI-*310-I/index.md>) (Qarīnī)

## In the onomasticon

- [I-KU-RI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/I-KU-RI-NA/index.md>): Place, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- Fischer, Wolfdietrich (2002), A Grammar of Classical Arabic. Yale Language Series,Yale University Press
- 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
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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