Personal name · Semitic
QA-QA-RU
personal name, 'Ground' (Akkadian qaqqarum)
- Reading
- Qaqqaru
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 3
- Lexicon
- QA-QA-RU
Commentary
Recipient on HT93a and HT118, a listed person on HT122b. Eblaite PN ga-ga-lum = qaqqarum (Pagan 1998).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry QA-QA-RU.
- Akkadianqaqqaruqaqqaru(m) ‘ground, earth, territory, plot of land’
- EblaitePN ga-ga-lum = qaqqarum ‘ground’; gar₃-ga-ri₂ = qarqari (Pagan 1998)
- Hebrewקַרְקַעqarqaʿqarqaʿ (קַרְקַע) ‘ground, floor’ (metathesized form)