# A-MI-TA (ʾamita)

> handmaid (of the goddess)

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

- Reading: ʾamita
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*ʾam(a)t-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2783/index.md>) 'maid, girl, handmaid'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · MI (mi) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *amtu* — amtu 'slave woman, handmaid'
- Hebrew: אָמָה *ʾāmāh* — אָמָה (ʾāmāh) 'handmaid'
- Arabic: أَمَة *ʾamat* — أَمَة (ʾamat) 'slave woman'
- Ugaritic: *amt* — amt 'handmaid'

## Attestations

- [ZA 10b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA10b/index.md>): A-MI-TA 3

## Commentary

ZA 10b: A-MI-TA 3 in a quantified list of names. Ug. àmt /ʾamatu/ 'woman slave, handmaid' (Huehnergard 2012, 41), as in amt aṯrt 'handmaid of Asherah' (Gordon 1966b, 91); Akk. amtu, Heb. ʾāmāh. Mari names the same formation: ʾAmat-ʿAštar-an and ʾAmat-Labwa, 'handmaid of Ashtart' and 'of the Lioness' (Gelb 1980, nos. 782–783).

## In the onomasticon

- [A-MI-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-MI-TA/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gordon 1966b; Huehnergard 2012; Gelb 1980
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Ugarit and Minoan Crete: The Bearing of Their Texts on the Origins of Western Culture. W. W. Norton & Company, New York (First Edition)
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

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