# KA-RO-NA (Qarna)

> personal name, 'horn'

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

- Reading: Qarna
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*ḳarn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1959/index.md>) 'horn' 1, 'to fight, oppose' 2, 'to guard' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · RO (ro) · NA (na)
- Rank: #72 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: קֶרֶן *qeren* — qeren (קֶרֶן) "horn, ray" (BDB 901); qarnayim "horns" (dual)
- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎗𐎐 *qrn* — qrn "horn" (DULAT 700)
- Akkadian: *qarnu* — qarnu "horn" (CAD Q 136)
- Arabic: *qarn* — qarn "horn, peak" (Lane)

## Attestations

- [HT 11a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT11a/index.md>): KA-RO-NA 2 — Qarna (personal name, 'horn')

## Commentary

HT 11a (Haghia Triada, Villa Magazine, LM IB): A-RU-RA ]3, KA-RO-NA 2, *322-RI 1, KU-RO 10, three entries in one total, so a recipient. KA writes /qa/: the k-signs cover k, g and q (Gordon 1966, §142). Horn names are common across Semitic: Amorite Qar-ni-li-im (Huffmon 1965, 58; element qarn- 'horn, strength', 259), Middle Babylonian Qarni-Ana (ORACC P503266), Middle Assyrian Qarna-Adad (ORACC P282214), Neo-Assyrian Qarnaya (ORACC P336263), and Hebrew Qeren-happûk, a daughter of Job (Job 42:14). One attestation. See I-KU-RI-NA.

## Same root

- [I-KU-RI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-KU-RI-NA/index.md>) (ʾiqurna)
- [KA-RI-\*310-I](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-RI-*310-I/index.md>) (Qarīnī)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gordon 1966; Huffmon 1965
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company

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