# KA-I-RO (kāʾil)

> Measurer (professional-title PN), of grain; rival a name on g-y-l 'to rejoice'

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

- Reading: kāʾil
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kalVy- ~ \*kayl-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/298/index.md>) 'vessel' 1, 'measure' 2, 'to hold, contain' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · I (i) · RO (ro)

## Compared forms

- Arabic: *kāʾil* — kāʾil 'measurer', active participle of kāla 'to measure (grain)'; kayl 'measure' (Q 12:59–65)
- Hebrew: *kûl* — kûl 'to measure' (Isa 40:12)

## Attestations

- [ZA 8](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA8/index.md>): KA-I-RO 4 ? — the measurer (professional-title PN), 4 + fractions; rival a name on g-y-l 'to rejoice'

## Commentary

ZA 8 .6 KA-I-RO 4 B B, intact, the last entry of the fig list headed KI-RA · (GORILA III 165), with the largest share, two entries after MA-KA-I-SE. kāʾil 'measurer', active participle of √k-y-l 'to measure (grain)': Arb. kayyāl 'a measurer of corn', mikyāl 'a measure for corn' (Lane 3005), kayl 'measure' (Q 12:59–65). I writes ʾi, RO the final l as in KU-RO kull; A-I writes -ay- in DA-I-PI-TA on the same tablet. Rival: a name on √g-y-l 'to rejoice', Heb. gîl (HALOT 189–190). One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- 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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