# A-RA-NA-RE (Aranare)

> personal name; Ugaritic ålnr (Hurrian), Linear B a-ra-na-ro

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

- Reading: Aranare
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: A (a) · RA (ra) · NA (na) · RE (re)
- Rank: #35 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: ålnr PN, Hurrian (DULAT 57)
- Hurrian: Allanšeridanu, {1}al-la-an-še-ri-da-ni, a man at Ugarit, RS 16.251:5 (Kinlaw 1967, 19)
- Linear B: a-ra-na-ro, a man on the Knossos roster KN As(2) 1516

## Attestations

- [HT 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT1/index.md>): A-RA-NA-RE 105 — personal name; Ugaritic ålnr (Hurrian), Linear B a-ra-na-ro

## Commentary

HT 1 A-RA-NA-RE 105, the last of the counted names, whole (GORILA I 3). Ugaritic ålnr, a personal name classed Hurrian and set beside Linear B a-ra-na-ro (DULAT 57); first element allai 'the Lady' (Laroche, GLH 42–43), as in Allan-šeridani at Ugarit (Kinlaw 1967, 19). Hurrian r and l alternate; RA writes r here, as the same scribe writes RA₂ for la in QE-RA₂-U. Linear B a-ra-na-ro is a man, VIR 1, on KN As 1516.11. HT 47b ]RA-NA-RE[, room for one sign before (GORILA I 91), is the same name if the lost sign is A. Rival: Gordon's Egyptian ꜥꜣ-rn-Rꜥ 'Great-is-the-name-of-Re' (Gordon 1966 §127).

## In the onomasticon

- [A-RA-NA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-RA-NA-RE/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT 57; Laroche 1980; KN As 1516.11; Gordon 1966 §127
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- 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
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)
- 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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