# U-TA-RO (watru) > additional, surplus, or excess (administrative heading) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: watru - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*wtr]() 'very large, surpassing' 1, 'to remain over, be left over, abound' 2, 'profit' 3, 'chariot with reinforced wheels' 4 - Kind: Administrative - Language: Semitic - Signs: U (u) · TA (ta) · RO (ro) ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *watrum* — watrum 'additional, in excess'; watartum 'excess, surplus' (Huehnergard 1997, §10.1) - Eblaite: *a-BAN(tarₓ) watār* — a-BAN(tarₓ) watār 'abundance' (GlOS 2, 363) - Alalakh: *at-rù* — at-rù 'excellent; too much' (GlOS 2, 363) ## Attestations - [HT 116a](): U-TA-RO TE ## Commentary HT 116a: U-TA-RO · TE ·, the heading over six entries of grain, oil, olives and *304 (KU-PA-JA, PU-RA₂, SI+SE, PI-*34-TE, SI-KI-NE, QA-NU-MA). watru 'surplus', U writing wa and RO a dead vowel: Akk. watru 'in excess, additional' (CAD A/2 499), watartu 'excess, surplus' (CAD A/2 485; Huehnergard 1997, §10.1). Rival: Heb. √ʿ-t-r 'entreat' (Gen 25:21; Judg 13:8), an agent noun *ʿattār 'supplicant', unattested. One attestation. See TE-RI. ## References - Reading: di Mino; CAD A/2; Huehnergard 1997; GlOS 2 - Huehnergard, John (1997), A Grammar of Akkadian. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 45) - CAD A/2: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1968), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. A/2. - GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-TA-RO/ 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.