KU-RA-MU

personal name, 'Vineyard' (√k-r-m)

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Reading
Kurmu
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*karm- ‘mountain with a vineyard on it’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewכֶּרֶםkeremkerem (כֶּרֶם) "vineyard" (BDB 501)
  • Ugaritic𐎋𐎗𐎎krmkrm "vineyard" (DULAT 451)
  • Akkadiankarmukarmu "ruin" (different sense; CAD K 220)
  • Arabickarmkarm "vine, vineyard" (Lane)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 117a3DKU-RA-MU 1personal name, 'Vineyard'

Commentary

HT 117a (Haghia Triada, Casa Room 9, LM IB): one of ten entries counted 1 each under MA-KA-RI-TE ‘merchants’ (KU-RO 10), a name on the noun ‘vineyard’, as Tēnā ‘Fig’ (TE-*301). Heb. kerem ‘vineyard’ (HALOT 498); Ebla has the same noun as a name, gar₃-mu karmu ‘vineyard’ (Pagan 1998, row 1991). One attestation. See KU-RU-MA.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 117a–bHaghia Triada…ku-ra-mu……
Linear A Lexicon