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Akkadian
pūru - lot, portion, plot, parcel (of merchandise, land)
(CAD P 528, AHw. 881)
The etymology of this specifically Assyrian word (Kogan 2006a:184, as opposed to Babylonian isḳu) is still uncertain as none of the existing proposals is sufficiently convincing.