# KE-KI-RU (Kikkaru) > personal name, 'Disk, Round loaf' A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Kikkaru - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*kakkar-/\*kikkar-]() 'round loaf, disk; talent; (round) district' - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: KE (ke) · KI (ki) · RU (ru) ## Compared forms - Amorite: KAKKAR-I (KA-KA-RI), personal name (Gelb 1980, AS 21, no. 3957) - Akkadian: *kakkaru* — kakkaru 'metal disk (a talent); round loaf' (CAD K 49) - Hebrew: *kikkār* — kikkār 'round loaf; talent' (Exod 29:23) ## Attestations - [HT 94b](): KE-KI-RU 1 — personal name, 'Disk, Round loaf'; rival a title ## Commentary HT 94b under KI-RO: TU-MA 1, PA-TA-NE 1, DE-DI 1, KE-KI-RU 1, SA-RU 1, KU-RO 5, one unit each with no commodity sign: a name. *kikkar- 'disk, round loaf' (PS *kakkar-/*kikkar-) as a name, with the i of Heb. kikkār, KE writing ki as RE writes ri in KI-RE-TA₂; Akk. kakkaru (CAD K 49), Amorite KAKKAR-I (Gelb AS 21 no. 3957). Weak point: KI for the a of kikkar-. Rival: a title. KI-KI-RA-JA (HT 85b) is on the same root. One attestation. See QA-KU-RE and QE-KU-RE. ## Same root - [KI-KI-RA-JA]() (kikkarāya) - [QA-KU-RE]() (kakkarē) - [QE-KU-RE]() (kikkᵊrē) ## In the onomasticon - [KE-KI-RU](): 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 - 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/KE-KI-RU/ 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.