# U-KA-RE (ʾugār)

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

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

- Reading: ʾugār
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*(ʾV-)g(w)ar- (or \*hugar-)/\*garh-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1807/index.md>) 'field, arable land'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · KA (ka) · RE (re)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *ugāru* — ugāru '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)
- Ugaritic: *ủgr* — ủgr (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)

## Attestations

- [PE 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PE1/index.md>): U-KA-RE A-SE-SI-NA — the 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.

## Same root

- [A-KA-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-KA-RU/index.md>) (Agaru)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD U/W; DULAT
- 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
- CAD U/W: Oriental Institute (Martha T. Roth, ed.) (2010), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 20, U and W. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- Tsipopoulou, Metaxia; Hallager, Erik (1996), Inscriptions with Hieroglyphs and Linear A from Petras, Siteia. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici,37,Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, Roma,41

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