# \*ḳʷary- 'town' 1, 'village' 2

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

- Author's gloss: town, city, village
- SED semet 658
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/q/672_town_1_village_2.md

## In Linear A

- [QA-RE-TO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-RE-TO/index.md>) (qart-): city of (Phoenician construct form)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: ḳr(y)-t- 1
- Hebrew: ḳiryā 1 (Kogan 2015, ch. 3 §5.3 no. 19); ḳeret 1 (HALOT 1149) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: ḳurǝyātā Ja 1420; qrth (DNWSI 1037) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: ḳerī-t- 1 Brock 695
- Phoenician: qrt 1 (HALOT 1142; Krahmalkov 433; T 294) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: qrt 1 (HALOT 1142; T 294) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: qryh (HALOT 1142; DNWSI 1033); qrt (DNWSI 1037) (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: qiryā 1 (HALOT 1142) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ḳa/iry-at- 1, pl. ḳur-an- 2

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: ḳr 1, a misdivision of bqr (Sabaweb lemma 4790) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Jibbali: ṣ̃írɛ́-t 1

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