# KA-KU (Kakku)

> personal name, 'Weapon' (Amorite Kakku)

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

- Reading: Kakku
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kakk-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3844/index.md>) 'weapon'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · KU (ku)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Amorite: KAKK-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)

## Attestations

- [HT 62+73](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT62~2B73/index.md>): \]\[?\]-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.

## Same root

- [KA-KU-NE-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-KU-NE-TE/index.md>) (Kakku-ʿAnēt)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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