# \*makir- 'seller, trader, merchant'

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

- Author's gloss: trader, merchant; to sell
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/m/S22_seller_trader_merchant.md

## In Linear A

- [MA-KA-RI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-KA-RI-TE/index.md>) (makkārītu): merchants (heading of a roster of men); rival 'red (wool)'

## 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

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: tamkāru (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)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: mkr (DULAT 537); /makāru/? (UVST 146) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: mkr (Krahmalkov 282); sellers of incense, iron objects, gold objects, broad beans, flax/linen attested; mkr (T 177) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: mōkēr (Isa 24:2; HALOT 581); mākar (HALOT 581) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: mekar (T 177)
- Punic: ymkr; Neo-Punic ymkrʾ (Krahmalkov 281) (gloss withheld)
- Canaanite: EG SYLL mak=ru₂=ʾu /*mākiruyu/ (Hoch 169) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab mkr (SD 85; Biella 274; Sabaweb lemma 4534) (gloss withheld)

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