Title · Semitic

MA-KA-RI-TE

merchants (heading of a roster of men); rival 'red (wool)'

Reading: makkārītu
Type: Title Candidate
Language: Semitic Candidate
Sites: Haghia Triada
Attestations: 2
Lexicon: MA-KA-RI-TE

Commentary

MA-KA-RI-TE heads the HT117a personnel list and follows the *21F-TU-NE heading on HT87. One sign-group in both. ‘Merchants’, √m-k-r: Ugaritic mkrm, counted in rosters with a total (DULAT 537). Rival: makritu ‘red’ (CAD M/1 138). A non-onomastic heading. Akk. mākiru, makkāru ‘trader’.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry MA-KA-RI-TE.

Ugaritic𐎎𐎋𐎗mkrmkr ‘merchant, commercial agent’, pl. mkrm, counted in rosters: ʿšr mkrm ‘ten merchants’, spr mkrm ‘list of traders’, ġr mkrm ‘total of merchants’ (DULAT 537); syllabic ma-ka-ri ‘to trade’ (Huehnergard 2008, 146)
Akkadianmakārumakāru B ‘to do business’, OA and Ras Shamra (CAD M/1 126); mākiru, makkāru ‘trader’ (CAD M/1 129, 131); tamkāru ‘merchant’ (CAD T 125); tamkārūtu ‘commercial transaction; (collective) merchants’ (CAD T 141); rival makrū, fem. makritu ‘red’, of wool (CAD M/1 138)
Hebrewmōkērmōkēr ‘seller’ (Isa 24:2); mkr ‘to sell’ (HALOT 581)
PhoenicianPunic mkrPunic mkr ‘seller, trader’: mkr ʾqṭr ‘incense-seller’ (Krahmalkov 2000, 282)
Sabaicmkrnmkrn ‘merchants, tradesmen’ (Biella 1982, 274)
Egyptian*mākiruyu*mākiruyu ‘merchant’, a Semitic loan after swty ‘trader’ (Hoch 1994, 169, no. 223)