U-KA-RE

the field (of), meadowland (heading of a grain-ration list); rivals ʾikkār 'ploughman', the personal name Ugār

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Reading
ʾugār
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*(ʾV-)g(w)ar- (or *hugar-)/*garh- ‘field, arable land’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Akkadianugāruugāru ‘grassland, meadow, arable land’, a Sumerian loanword: construct ina ú-ga-ar ekallim ‘from the meadow of the palace’ (ARMT 23 244:10); kurummat 27 ṣābī ša ú-ga-re-e īpušū ‘provisions for 27 men who worked the meadowlands’ (BE 14 56a:26); DUMU.MEŠ ú-ga-ri-im ‘the participants in the u.’ (BIN 7 7:12) (CAD U/W 29–31)
  • Ugariticủgrủgr (I) ‘field, soil’, sg. suff. ủgrm (1.12 I 25); PN ủgr, syll. ú-ga-a[r (Ug 5 51:8), the rival (DULAT 27)

Attestations1 cited

  1. PE 1U-KA-RE A-SE-SI-NAthe field of (heading); rivals ʾikkār 'ploughman', the personal name Ugār

Commentary

PE 1 .1–2 U-KA-RE A-SE-SI-NA, two groups, the heading over KU-PA-RI kuparī VIR 5̣0[ and E-KA[ VIR 72, each with grain at ½ unit a head (Younger, Linear A Texts, after Tsipopoulou & Hallager 1996, 25–30). u-gā-r, the construct before A-SE-SI-NA ḥašīšin ‘of hay’, RE’s vowel dead, as Mari ina ú-ga-ar ekallim ‘from the meadow of the palace’ (ARMT 23 244:10; CAD U/W 31). Men of the ugāru draw provisions in Akkadian: kurummat 27 ṣābī ša ú-ga-re-e īpušū ‘provisions for 27 men who worked the meadowlands’ (BE 14 56a:26; CAD U/W 30). Rivals: ʾikkār ‘ploughman’, Hebrew ʾikkār (2 Chr 26:10, pl. ʾikkārîm), U for ʾi a vowel mismatch; the PN Ugār (DULAT 27). One witness. See A-KA-RU, A-SE-SI-NA.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon