# QA-RE-TO (qart-)

> city of (Phoenician construct form)

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

- Reading: qart-
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ḳʷary-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/672/index.md>) 'town' 1, 'village' 2
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QA (qa) · RE (re) · TO (to)

## Compared forms

- Phoenician: 𐤒𐤓𐤕 *qrt* — qrt 'city' (Krahmalkov 433); construct in qrtḥdšt 'Carthage, New City' (Krahmalkov 434)
- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎗𐎚 *qrt* — qrt 'city' (DULAT 702)
- Hebrew: *qeret* — qeret 'city', mərōmê qāret, Prov 9:3 (HALOT 1149)

## Attestations

- [HT 132](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT132/index.md>): QA-RE-TO \*21F 27

## Commentary

HT 132: QA-RE-TO · *21F 27, between A-SE · A319 5 and PA₃ · *305 1, in a commodity allocation. qart- 'city (of)', the Phoenician construct, which Melqart, milk-qart 'king of the city' (PS *milk-qart-), shows. Ug. qryt /qar(i)yatu/, also qrt /qarītu/ 'city' (Huehnergard 2012, 44), BH qiryā; the Ugarit polyglot vocabulary has qa-ri-t[u₄] 'city' (GlOS 1, 354). One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Huehnergard 2012; GlOS 1
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- 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
- 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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