# \*47-NU-RA-JA (Šū-nūraya)

> personal name, 'He is light'; rival mənōrāya 'lampstand (man)'

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Šū-nūraya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*nūr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1196/index.md>) 'fire' 1, 'to shine, sparkle' 2, 'light' 3, 'lamp' 4
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*47 · NU (nu) · RA (ra) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: PN nryn, syll. nu-ri-ia-nu, short form nu-ri-ia (DULAT 634)
- Eblaite: *su-nu-ri₂ šū-nūrī* — su-nu-ri₂ šū-nūrī 'he is my light' (Pagan 1998, row 4282)
- Amorite: NU-RA nūram (Gelb no. 5085)

## Attestations

- [HT 115a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115a/index.md>): \*47-NU-RA-JA I GRA+BOSm RI-TA-MA — personal name, 'He is light'; rival mənōrāya 'lampstand (man)'

## Commentary

HT 115a .1 *47-NU-RA-JA · I · GRA+BOSm, whole and undotted, the first entry of a palimpsest (GORILA I 189); HT 115b repeats the frame with TI-NU-JA, a person. NU-RA-JA is nūr-aya, as Ugaritic nu-ri-ia beside nu-ri-ia-nu (DULAT 634). With *47 = so: šū 'he', as Ebla su-nu-ri₂ šū-nūrī 'He is my light' (Pagan 1998, row 4282); SO for šū is a vowel mismatch only. Rival: with *47 = mo, mənōrā 'lampstand' (Ug. mnrt, DULAT 558) + -aya. One witness. See NU-RO, *301-U-RA and JA-I-NWA-RO.

## Same root

- [NU-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NU-RO/index.md>) (nūr-)
- [\*301-U-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*301-U-RA/index.md>) (naura)
- [JA-I-NWA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-I-NWA-RO/index.md>) (yā ʾanwaru)
- [QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-MI-*47-NA-RA/index.md>) (qāmī šū-nāra)

## In the onomasticon

- [\*47-NU-RA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/*47-NU-RA-JA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Pagan 1998; Gelb 1980
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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