Proto-Semitic root
*makir-
‘seller, trader, merchant’
di Mino’s gloss: trader, merchant; to sell
Record S22 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor
In Linear A1 entry
Notes
Trade personnel vocabulary. The Phoenician attestation catalogs commodity-specific merchant types. OLA80 §64.4: semantic pejoration mkr traders > "deceive" in WS; Aram taggārā < Akk tamkāru loanpath
Reflexes8 languages
East Semitic1
- Akkadiantamkāru (CAD T 125; tVmkVr- formation from same root; AHw 1314)mākiru (CAD M/1 129)makkāru (CAD M/1 131)muštamkiru (CAD M/2 285)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic6
- Ugariticmkr (DULAT 537)/makāru/? (UVST 146)gloss withheld
- Phoenicianmkr (Krahmalkov 282)sellers of incense, iron objects, gold objects, broad beans, flax/linen attestedmkr (T 177)gloss withheld
- Hebrewmōkēr (Isa 24:2; HALOT 581)mākar (HALOT 581)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaicmekar (T 177)
- PunicymkrNeo-Punic ymkrʾ (Krahmalkov 281)gloss withheld
- CanaaniteEG SYLL mak=ru₂=ʾu /*mākiruyu/ (Hoch 169)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSab mkr (SD 85; Biella 274; Sabaweb lemma 4534)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.