KA-KU

personal name, 'Weapon' (Amorite Kakku)

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Reading
Kakku
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*kakk- ‘weapon’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

  • AmoriteKAKK-U, written ka-ak-ku, a woman’s name (Gelb 1980, no. 3913); KAKK-A+ compounds (nos. 3905–3912); kakkum, fem. kakka ‘weapon’, and the god Kakka (Gelb 1980, glossary)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 62+73][?]-NA GRA 15 ¹⁄₄ KA-KU 7[

Commentary

HT 62 .2 (GORILA I 117): ][·]-NA GRA 15¼ KA-KU 7[, a recipient after a grain entry; the 7 is Pugliese Carratelli’s reading, four strokes now. Matches Amorite KAKK-U, ka-ak-ku (Gelb 1980, no. 3913), with the geminate unwritten. The same element stands first in KA-KU-NE-TE (ZA 10b). Rival: kakkum ‘weapon’ as a commodity, which the recipient slot does not favour. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon