Personal name · Semitic

A-KI-RO

ʾAkiru (personal name; Amorite ʾAkir-, cf. ʾikkār 'plowman')

Reading: ʾAkiru
Type: Personal name Speculative
Language: Semitic Speculative
Sites: Arkhanes
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: A-KI-RO

Commentary

ARKH 4b .4 A-KI-RO 3, in a list of whole-number entries (GORILA III 14–15). The Amorite name A-KI-RU-UM (Gelb 1980, nos. 338–340). See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry A-KI-RO.

AmoriteʾAKIR-UM, A-KI-RU-UM (KISURRA B 7+); ʾAKIR-I, A-KI-RI (VAS VIII 14 37); ʾAKIR-AH, A-KI-RA, FN (Gelb 1980 nos. 338–340)
Hebrewʾikkārʾikkār ‘plowman, farmer’ (Jer 51:23; Amos 5:16)
Akkadianikkaruikkaru ‘plowman, farm laborer; farmer’, Sum. lw. (CAD I/J s.v.)