# KU-RA-MU (Kurmu)

> personal name, 'Vineyard' (√k-r-m)

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

- Reading: Kurmu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*karm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1045/index.md>) 'mountain with a vineyard on it'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · RA (ra) · MU (mu)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: כֶּרֶם *kerem* — kerem (כֶּרֶם) "vineyard" (BDB 501)
- Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎗𐎎 *krm* — krm "vineyard" (DULAT 451)
- Akkadian: *karmu* — karmu "ruin" (different sense; CAD K 220)
- Arabic: *karm* — karm "vine, vineyard" (Lane)

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>): KU-RA-MU 1 — personal 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.

## Same root

- [KU-RU-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-RU-MA/index.md>) (kurma / gurma)

## In the onomasticon

- [KU-RA-MU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KU-RA-MU/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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
- 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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