QA-QA-RU
personal name, 'Ground' (Akkadian qaqqarum)
- Reading
- Qaqqaru
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- *ḳarḳar- ‘earth as a solid surface (ground)’
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- #93 of the top 100
Compared forms
- Akkadianqaqqaruqaqqaru(m) ‘ground, earth, territory, plot of land’
- EblaitePN ga-ga-lum = qaqqarum ‘ground’; gar₃-ga-ri₂ = qarqari (Pagan 1998)
- Hebrewקַרְקַעqarqaʿqarqaʿ (קַרְקַע) ‘ground, floor’ (metathesized form)
Attestations3 cited
Commentary
A recipient or listed person at all three intact witnesses: HT 93a QA-QA-RU · I GRA+PA 5; HT 118, 6 pigs with KI 4; HT 122b, 2 in a personnel list totalled KU-RO 65. HT 111a ]QA-QA-RU 8 is broken before, so the word there can be longer; it stays out of the count. Akk. qaqqaru ‘ground’: Ebla has the noun as a personal name, ga-ga-lum = qaqqarum ‘ground’ (ARET 8 539 v. 9, 13′; Pagan 1998, row 1936), and gar₃-ga-ri₂ = qarqari (Pagan 1998, row 1988), both on the base qarqar-.