# QA-QA-RU (Qaqqaru) > personal name, 'Ground' (Akkadian qaqqarum) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Qaqqaru - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*ḳarḳar-]() 'earth as a solid surface (ground)' - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: QA (qa) · QA (qa) · RU (ru) - Rank: #93 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *qaqqaru* — qaqqaru(m) 'ground, earth, territory, plot of land' - Eblaite: PN ga-ga-lum = qaqqarum 'ground'; gar₃-ga-ri₂ = qarqari (Pagan 1998) - Hebrew: קַרְקַע *qarqaʿ* — qarqaʿ (קַרְקַע) 'ground, floor' (metathesized form) ## Attestations - [HT 118](): QA-QA-RU 6 — personal name, 'Ground'; recipient of pigs - [HT 122b](): QA-QA-RU 2 — personal name, 'Ground' - [HT 93a](): QA-QA-RU I GRA+PA 5 — personal name, 'Ground'; recipient of I GRA+PA ## 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-. ## In the onomasticon - [QA-QA-RU](): Personal name, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino - Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012) - EbDA: Ebla Digital Archives (CNR), Ebla Digital Archives (EbDA): ARET, ARES and MEE text editions. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-QA-RU/ 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.