# QE-KU-RE (kikkᵊrē)

> rounds, round cakes of (a commodity); talent; rival the personal name Qaqqaru

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

- Reading: kikkᵊrē
- 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: QE (qe) · KU (ku) · RE (re)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: kikkᵊrê, construct pl., 'talents of' (2 Kgs 5:5)
- Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎋𐎗 *kkr* — kkr 'talent' (DULAT 430–31); kkr ḥlb 'a talent of cheese' (DULAT 355)
- Emar: ka-ak-ka-ri, ka-ak-ka-ru kakkaru 'talent, loaf of bread' (Emar 387:5; Pentiuc 2001, 91)

## Attestations

- [HT 20](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT20/index.md>): QE-KU-RE DI ¹⁄₂ — rounds of (a commodity)

## Commentary

HT 20 .2–.3 QE-KU-RE · DI ½, whole and undotted, the second entry under PA-RO-SU in a list where every entry takes a fraction (GORILA I 37). kik-kᵊrē, a construct before the commodity sign DI, as Hebrew kikkᵊrê kesep 'talents of silver' (2 Kgs 5:5). QE at its k value; Ugarit writes the word with ka₄, the QA sign (DULAT 430–31). Rival: the name Qaqqaru, spelled QA-QA-RU elsewhere at Haghia Triada. One witness. See QA-KU-RE, KI-KI-RA-JA and KE-KI-RU.

## 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)
- [QA-KU-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-KU-RE/index.md>) (kakkarē)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Pentiuc 2001
- 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 I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Pentiuc, Eugen J. (2001), West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar. Harvard Semitic Studies 49,Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana

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