Personal name · Semitic
KU-RU-KU
saffron, crocus (PN from plant term)
- Reading
- kurkū
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- KU-RU-KU
Commentary
HT 87, a one-unit entry in the *21F-TU-NE · MA-KA-RI-TE roster. kurkū, PS *kurk- ‘saffron’ (Akk. kurkānū, Heb. karkōm): a name from the plant. One attestation.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry KU-RU-KU.