# KA-PA (kapa(r)) > village, settlement (kapar); rival an institution A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: kapa(r) - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*kapār-]() 'village' - Kind: Toponym - Language: Semitic - Signs: KA (ka) · PA (pa) ## Compared forms - Hebrew: *kōper* — kōper 'open village' (HALOT 495) - Akkadian: *kapru* — kapru A 'village, farm' (CAD K 189) - Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎔𐎗 *kpr* — kpr (I) 'village' (DULAT 447) - Phoenician: 𐤊𐤐𐤓 *kpr* — kpr 'town, village' (Krahmalkov 240) ## Attestations - [HT 6a](): KA-PA - [HT 8b](): KA-PA ¹⁄₂ — village, settlement - [HT 94a](): KA-PA VIR+\[?\] 62 - [HT 102](): KA-PA — village (account heading) - [HT 105](): KA-PA - [HT 140](): KA-PA ¹⁄₂ ## Commentary Six Haghia Triada attestations. First word on HT 102 (SA-RA₂ GRA 976 follows; KU-RO 1060), HT 94a (VIR+[?] 62 follows on the line; KU-RO 110), HT 6a (divider, then DA-TA-RA) and HT 105 (broken after PA; VIR+[?] 234 below). An entry with ½ on HT 8b and HT 140; KA-PA-QE 5¾ on HT 6a. Abbreviated KA on HT 140 (Montecchi 2010, 15). Hebrew and Aramaic kĕpar 'village', with final /r/ unwritten; Bronze Age kapr 'village' at Ebla, Alalakh VII and on the Euphrates, Ug. kpr (GlOS 1, 315). The ½ entries make an institution or entity the rival to a place. Rival: Akkadian gabbu 'all' (Gordon, via Rendsburg 1996, 38), spelt ka-pa-šu-nu and qa-pa-šu-ma at Nuzi, where it follows a total of men (Gordon 1934, 20 §100). It fits the heads of HT 94a and HT 105, but not the ½ entries, and HT 94a closes with KU-RO. See KU-PA-RI. ## Same root - [KU-PA-RI]() (kuparī) ## In the onomasticon - [KA-PA](): Place, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; GlOS 1; Montecchi 2010 - Rendsburg, Gary A. (1996), "Someone Will Succeed in Deciphering Minoan": Cyrus H. Gordon and Minoan Linear A. The Biblical Archaeologist,59(1),36–43 - Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven) - 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 K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt - 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 - GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park - Gordon, Cyrus H. (1934), The Pronoun in the Nuzi Tablets. The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures,51/1,1–21 - Montecchi, Barbara (2010), A Classification Proposal of Linear A Tablets from Haghia Triada in Classes and Series. Kadmos,49,Walter de Gruyter,11–38 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-PA/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.