# \*ʾkr 1, \*ʾa/ikkār- 2 'to cultivate' 1, 'laborer' 2

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

- Author's gloss: to plough, till; ploughman, farmer
- SED semet 1946
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%CA%BE/1810_to_cultivate_1_laborer_2.md

## In Linear A

- [A-KI-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-KI-RO/index.md>) (ʾAkiru): ʾAkiru (personal name; Amorite ʾAkir-, cf. ʾikkār 'plowman')
- [I-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-KA/index.md>) (ʾikkār): farmer, plowman (recipient)
- [I-KI-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-KI-RA/index.md>) (ikkara): farmer, tenant farmer (occupational title)

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: ikkaru, inkaru (Nuzi) OAkk on (CAD I/J 49; AHw 368) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Mandaic Aramaic: AKR (DM 18), ʕkara (Ibid. 349) (gloss withheld) [DM 349]
- Hebrew: ʔikkār (HALOT 47) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: ʔakkārā 'farmer', ʔkr 'ploughed, tilled the field' (Brock. 20)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ʔakr- 'the act of digging the earth, a pit; the act of ploughing the earth', ʔakkār- 'one who digs the earth, gravedigger; ploughman' (BK 1, 42), ʔkr 'to plough (the soil), to dig it' (Belot 1929, 11)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Gurage: Chaha t-akärä, Enn. Gyeto t-ākärä, End. t-ākkärä (LGur 593) (gloss withheld)
- Amharic: akkärä (LGur 593) (gloss withheld)

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