# MA-KA-I-SE (Makī-se)

> personal name: Makī with the Zakros -SE; Amorite maqīm 'Established'; rival the Egyptian name mkj

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

- Reading: Makī-se
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳVwVm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1134/index.md>) 'stand (up), rise'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MA (ma) · KA (ka) · I (i) · SE (se)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: *me-ki-im maqīm* — me-ki-im maqīm 'Established', PN at Alalakh and Apišal (Buck 2019, 307; Gelb 1980 no. 4648 ME-QWIM, no. 4649 ME-KWIN)
- Egyptian: mkj, men, Middle Kingdom (Ranke I, 166.12–13), one a ruler 'aus ḳdm' in Sinuhe B 219, Mkj⟨m⟩ 'semit. Königstitel' of Qatna in TLA; rival

## Attestations

- [ZA 8](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA8/index.md>): MA-KA-I-SE 2 𐝃𐝆 — Makī, with the Zakros -SE, 2 + fractions

## Commentary

ZA 8 MA-KA-I-SE 2, in a roster of names with quantities (KU-TU-KO-RE, A-RI-NI-TA, TA-I-NU-MA-PA, DA-I-PI-TA, KA-I-RO). SE is the Zakros suffix of RU-MA-TA-SE beside bare RU-MA-TA; MA-KA-I is the base of MA-KA-I-TA (PK 1, ZA 5b). Makī, the Amorite name me-ki-im maqīm 'Established' (Gelb 1980, nos. 4648–4649; Buck 2019, 307), the final m unwritten. Egyptian writes the name mkj (Ranke I, 166.12–13), once for a ruler from Qedem in Sinuhe B 219, which TLA renders Meki⟨m⟩, a Semitic royal title. Rival: the Egyptian name mkj. One attestation.

## Same root

- [MA-KA-I-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-KA-I-TA/index.md>) (Makīt)
- [QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-MI-*47-NA-RA/index.md>) (qāmī šū-nāra)

## In the onomasticon

- [MA-KA-I-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/MA-KA-I-SE/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; Buck 2019; Ranke
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- TLA: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae / ORAEC (2024), Open Richly Annotated Egyptian Corpus (ORAEC/TLA). oraec.github.io
- Buck, Mary E. (2019), The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: Historical Implications of Linguistic and Archaeological Parallels. Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 8,Brill, Leiden

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