A-RA-TU-ME

earth (feminine noun with mimation—cf. Akk. erṣetum)

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Reading
ʾarṣ̂atum
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ʾar(V)ṣ̂- ‘earth’
Kind
Toponym
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Akkadianerṣetum "earth, land, ground"—standard fem. citation form with mimation (ORACC freq. 62)
  • Ugaritic𐎀𐎗𐎕ʾarṣʾarṣ "earth"
  • Hebrewאֶרֶץʾereṣʾereṣ (אֶרֶץ) "earth, land"

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT Wc 3024A-RA-TU-ME

Commentary

Hapax heading on the roundel HT Wc 3024. Mimated form of A-RA-TU (ZA 7a). Feminine mimation is the Proto-Semitic nonbound singular, *ṭāb-at-u-m (Huehnergard 2019, 59–60, Table 3.7), kept in Akk. erṣetum ‘earth’ (CAD E 308), Amorite a-še-ra-tum and ḫa-na-tum (George and Krebernik 2022, 131), and the names Ḥananatum, Ḥayyatum (Gelb 1980, nos. 477, 1809). The corpus’s only feminine with mimation; masculine singulars take it rarely too (RI-SU-MA, MA-RU-ME). A roundel is a sealed receipt, and its heading names the item in citation form, where mimation stands. See A-RE-TU-MI.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon