# KU (kull)

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

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

- Reading: kull
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*kʷall-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2418/index.md>) 'all' 1, 'to complete, make perfect' 2, 'to surround, encircle; to crown' 3
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *kalu/kallu* — kalu/kallu 'all, totality, everything'
- Hebrew: כֹּל *kōl* — kōl (כֹּל) 'all, every, totality'
- Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎍 *kl* — kl 'all, every (KTU passim)'

## Attestations

- [HT 127b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT127b/index.md>): KU 72 — counted class, 72
- [HT 131a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT131a/index.md>): KU — all, totality (subtotal marker)
- [HT 45b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT45b/index.md>): KU ¹⁄₄
- [HT 39](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT39/index.md>): KU
- [HT 40](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT40/index.md>): KU
- [HT 49b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT49b/index.md>): KU
- [HT 154a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT154a/index.md>): KU 6
- [KH 18](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH18/index.md>): KU 22
- [PK 3](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PK3/index.md>): KU 3
- [ARKH 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH6/index.md>): DA-NA-TU KU
- [TY Wc 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/TYWc5/index.md>): KU

## 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.

## Same root

- [KU-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-RO/index.md>) (kull)
- [PO-TO-KU-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PO-TO-KU-RO/index.md>) (batkull)
- [KU-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-RA/index.md>) (kulla)
- [KU-RE-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-RE-JU/index.md>) (Kulelu)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GORILA I; Huehnergard 2012
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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