Proto-Semitic root
*kakkar-/*kikkar-
‘round loaf, disk; talent; (round) district’
di Mino’s gloss: round loaf, disk; talent; surrounding district
Record 1097 ↗ · SED semet 1135 · Basis: SED, meaning edited
In Linear A4 entries
KE-KI-RUKikkarupersonal name, 'Disk, Round loaf'SpeculativeSemitic13DKI-KI-RA-JAkikkarāya(men) of the Kikkar, 'round district' (gentilic heading of a head-count roster)SpeculativeSemitic1QA-KU-REkakkarērounds of (a commodity)SpeculativeSemitic1QE-KU-REkikkᵊrērounds, round cakes of (a commodity)SpeculativeSemitic1
Notes
The verb is 3612 *krkr ‘to roll, whirl’.
Reflexes13 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadiankakkaru
- Eblaiticgur-gú-ru₁₂, kur-gú-ru₁₂, kur-gur-ru₁₂ /kurkur/ (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 319)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic10
- Hebrewkikkār
- Punickkr ‘talent’Anderson–Moser 2024 root kkr
- Ugaritickkr /kakkaru/ (UVST 136)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root kkr
- Syrian Aramaickakrā ‘talent (weight, money)’ (Payne Smith 214)
- Phoeniciankkr (T 141)gloss withheld
- AramaicEgArm. kkr, knkr (HALOT 473)
- Judaic Aramaickakraʾ (T 141)
- Emarka-ak-ka-ri, ka-ak-ka-ru, ka-ka-ru, ka-ka₄-rù /kakkaru/ (Pentiuc 2001, 91)gloss withheld
- Amoritekakkar: name ka-ka-ri (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 319)gloss withheld
- Biblical Aramaic*kakkar (HALOT BArm. s.v. כַּכַּר)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSab krkr (Biella 252; HALOT 473; Sabaweb lemma 4474)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.