# KA-RI-\*310-I (Qarīnī) > 'Companion' (personal name) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Qarīnī - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*ḳarn-]() 'horn' 1, 'to fight, oppose' 2, 'to guard' 3 - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: KA (ka) · RI (ri) · \*310 · I (i) ## Compared forms - Arabic: *qarana* — qarana 'be someone's companion' - Sabaic: *qrn* — qrn 'guard' (Biella 467) ## Attestations - [HT 98a](): KA-RI-\*310-I ¹⁄₄ — recipient of ¼; personal name, 'Companion' ## Commentary HT 98a: KA-RI-*310-I ¼, the last of the fractional issues, after RO-KE ½. Qarīnī 'Companion': *310 = in joins RI as it joins KI in KI-*310-RE kinnār, so KA-RI-IN-I writes qa-rīn-ī; Arabic qarana 'be someone's companion', Sabaic qrn 'guard' (Biella 467), with the -ī of a personal name. Rival: Qarnī 'horn', as KA-RO-NA Qarna and Mari Qarni-Lim (ARM 26/1, 599). Rival: Akk. karānu 'wine' (CAD K 202). Weak point: *310 = in is a proposed value. One attestation. ## Same root - [KA-RO-NA]() (Qarna) - [I-KU-RI-NA]() (ʾiqurna) ## In the onomasticon - [KA-RI-\*310-I](): Personal name, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; Biella 1982 - Biella: Biella, Joan Copeland (1982), Dictionary of Old South Arabic: Sabaean Dialect. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 25) - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-RI-*310-I/ 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 add28e94.