# KA-RE-RO (Kariru)

> Kariru (personal name, Nuzi Qa-ri-ru, Ka-ri-ru); rival karr- 'ram'

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

- Reading: Kariru
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: Kariru (Pre-Greek)
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · RE (re) · RO (ro)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: Nuzi Qa-ri-ru, Ka-ri-ru, Ka-ri-ru(m), Qa-ri-ri (NPN 80), 'Root qrr, "to burn"? Cf. Qar-ru-ru' (NPN 322)
- Hurrian: 'H. if formed on kar' (NPN 223), the rival analysis
- Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎗 *kr* — kr 'ram' (DULAT 449; PS *ka/irr-), the rival

## Attestations

- [HT Wc 3003](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3003/index.md>): KA-RE-RO — personal name, Nuzi Qa-ri-ru, Ka-ri-ru; rival karr- 'ram'

## Commentary

HT Wc 3003, a roundel (HM 77), KA-RE-RO alone, all three signs whole and undotted, no ideogram (GORILA II 72). Nuzi Qa-ri-ru, Ka-ri-ru(m), Qa-ri-ri, at least six men (NPN 80); Gelb gives root qrr, cf. Qar-ru-ru (NPN 322), Purves a Hurrian kar- (NPN 223). Sign for sign, RE for ri. A word alone on a roundel as ZU-DI-RA on HT Wc 3011 and PA-SE-JA on HT Wc 3002. Rival: *ka/irr- 'ram' (#2220; Ug. kr, DULAT 449), the roundel's commodity, with the r written twice. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; NPN
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- 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
- GORILA II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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