# QA-KU-RE (kakkarē)

> rounds of (a commodity); talent

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

- Reading: kakkarē
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kakkar-/\*kikkar-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1097/index.md>) 'round loaf, disk; talent; (round) district'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QA (qa) · KU (ku) · RE (re)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: kakkaru, Qatna [q]a-a[q]-q[a]-r[u] (EA 53:32), Alalakh ka-qa-ru (CAD K 49–50)

## Attestations

- [HT Wc 3017](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3017/index.md>): QA-KU-RE DI-\*306 CYP+D \*304+PA — rounds of (a commodity); talent

## Commentary

HT Wc 3017, a roundel, face a QA-KU-RE · DI-*306 ·, face b CYP+D · *304+PA, all signs whole and undotted (GORILA II 77). The a-vowel form of QE-KU-RE kikkᵊrē, again before a DI- word. QA for k as Ugarit's ka₄-ka₄-r[u] (DULAT 430–31). One witness.

## Same root

- [KE-KI-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KE-KI-RU/index.md>) (Kikkaru)
- [KI-KI-RA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KI-KI-RA-JA/index.md>) (kikkarāya)
- [QE-KU-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QE-KU-RE/index.md>) (kikkᵊrē)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; CAD
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- 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
- 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
- GORILA II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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