Akkadian

peniḫuru - (a legal or administrative title) (CAD P 324, AHw. 854)

From Hurrian pen-i-ġ(e)-o/u-ri, derived from the root pe/in- ‘to measure’ (BGH 310) with the nominal thematic vowel -i and the suffix forming professional designations -ḫo/uri (Giorgieri 2000:210, Wegner 2007:58).