# MA-KA-RI-TE (makkārītu) > merchants (heading of a roster of men); rival 'red (wool)' A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: makkārītu - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*makir-]() 'seller, trader, merchant' - Kind: Personnel - Language: Semitic - Signs: MA (ma) · KA (ka) · RI (ri) · TE (te) ## Compared forms - Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎋𐎗 *mkr* — mkr 'merchant, commercial agent', pl. mkrm, counted in rosters: ʿšr mkrm 'ten merchants', spr mkrm 'list of traders', ġr mkrm 'total of merchants' (DULAT 537); syllabic ma-ka-ri 'to trade' (Huehnergard 2008, 146) - Akkadian: *makāru* — makāru B 'to do business', OA and Ras Shamra (CAD M/1 126); mākiru, makkāru 'trader' (CAD M/1 129, 131); tamkāru 'merchant' (CAD T 125); tamkārūtu 'commercial transaction; (collective) merchants' (CAD T 141); rival makrū, fem. makritu 'red', of wool (CAD M/1 138) - Hebrew: *mōkēr* — mōkēr 'seller' (Isa 24:2); mkr 'to sell' (HALOT 581) - Phoenician: *Punic mkr* — Punic mkr 'seller, trader': mkr ʾqṭr 'incense-seller' (Krahmalkov 2000, 282) - Sabaic: *mkrn* — mkrn 'merchants, tradesmen' (Biella 1982, 274) - Egyptian: **mākiruyu* — *mākiruyu 'merchant', a Semitic loan after swty 'trader' (Hoch 1994, 169, no. 223) ## Attestations - [HT 87](): \*21F-TU-NE MA-KA-RI-TE — merchants (heading) - [HT 117a](): MA-KA-RI-TE KI-RO U-MI-NA-SI — merchants (heading) ## Commentary HT 87: *21F-TU-NE · MA-KA-RI-TE ·, then six men at 1 each. HT 117a: MA-KA-RI-TE · KI-RO · U-MI-NA-SI ·, then ten men at 1 each, KU-RO 10: 'merchants: owed'. One sign-group in both, divider after TE. √m-k-r 'to trade': Ugaritic counts mkrm in rosters with a total (ġr mkrm, DULAT 537), Akkadian has mākiru and makkāru 'trader', Punic mkr. TE writes the -t of a class noun, cf. the Akkadian collective tamkārūtu 'merchants' (CAD T 141). Hebrew has -t forms of the root, mimkeret 'sale' (Lev 25:42; HALOT 581) and hammōkeret 'she who sells' (Nah 3:4). Weak point: neither names a body of traders. Rival: makritu 'red', of wool (CAD M/1 138), which suits a commodity, not a roster of men. ## In the onomasticon - [MA-KA-RI-TE](): Title, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino - Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven) - Huehnergard, John (2008), Ugaritic Vocabulary in Syllabic Transcription, revised edition. Harvard Semitic Studies 32, Eisenbrauns - Biella: Biella, Joan Copeland (1982), Dictionary of Old South Arabic: Sabaean Dialect. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 25) - 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 - Hoch, James E. (1994), Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period. Princeton University Press - 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 - CAD M/1: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1977), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 10, M, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago - CAD T: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (2006), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 18, T. The Oriental Institute, Chicago --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-KA-RI-TE/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.