# \*(ʾV-)g(w)ar- (or \*hugar-)/\*garh- 'field, arable land'

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: field, arable land
- SED semet 1942
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/g/1807_field_arable_land.md

## In Linear A

- [A-KA-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-KA-RU/index.md>) (Agaru): field, estate (heading); rival the Ugaritic god Ugaru
- [U-KA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-KA-RE/index.md>) (ʾugār): the field (of), meadowland (heading of a grain-ration list); rivals ʾikkār 'ploughman', the personal name Ugār

## Notes

OLA80 §63.5 sets Libyco-Berber ižžar < *iggar 'field' and Agaw agār 'country' beside the Semitic forms, and doubts a loan from Sumerian a-gār 'water meadow' or from Indo-European *agr-. Rendsburg takes Mycenaean a-ko-ro, Greek ἀγρός, Latin ager and ugr for one IE–Semitic lexeme from the spread of agriculture (2026, 205).

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: ugāru OAkk. on (AHw 1402) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: ʔugr (Kogan 2015, ch. 5 §3.2.3 no. 1) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ǯawwār- 'ploughman' (BK 1, 353)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Tigre: gärhat (LGz. 202) (gloss withheld)
- Geez: garha, garāht, garh (LGz. 202) (gloss withheld)
- Tigrinya: Tna. gǝrat, pl. gǝrahǝw (LGz. 202) (gloss withheld)
- Gurage: täggärä (OLA80 §63.5) (gloss withheld)

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