KU

all, totality, everything (administrative category: miscellaneous/general allocation; section subtotal)

𐙂KUAB8150 entries
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Reading
kull
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*kʷall- ‘all’ 1, ‘to complete, make perfect’ 2, ‘to…’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Akkadiankalu/kallukalu/kallu ‘all, totality, everything’
  • Hebrewכֹּלkōlkōl (כֹּל) ‘all, every, totality’
  • Ugaritic𐎋𐎍klkl ‘all, every (KTU passim)’

Attestations11 cited

  1. HT 127bKU 72counted class, 72
  2. HT 131aKUall, totality (subtotal marker)
  3. HT 45bKU ¹⁄₄
  4. HT 39KU
  5. HT 40KU
  6. HT 49bKU
  7. HT 154aKU 6
  8. KH 18KU 22

Commentary

HT 127b: KU-RO *307 156, KU 72, VIR+*313c 24, KI+MU 15, *301 11 and the erased KI+MU 14, KU-RO 292 (GORILA I 219): KU is one section of the total. On HT 131a KU 353 is the largest number, a subtotal; on HT 45b KU ¼ stands three times. KU alone marks 151 HT nodules (HT Wa 1471–1622), the second commonest after *301, and stands on tablets at five sites. HT 42+59 has KU-[ ]OLE[, a broken longer word. kull ‘all, section’, beside KU-RO kull-rōʿu ‘grand total’: Ug. kl /kullu/ ‘each, every, all, entire’ and kll /kalīlu/ ‘entirety, everything’ (Huehnergard 2012, 37), BH kōl, kālīl.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon