# A-RE-SA-NA (ʾAriš-ān)

> 'The Requested One'—votive birth-name from √ʾ-r-š "to request, desire" + hypocoristic -ān; the child asked of the goddess, the name a receipt

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

- Reading: ʾAriš-ān
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʾVrVš-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0596/index.md>) 'ask' 1, 'desire, wish' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · RE (re) · SA (sa) · NA (na)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Amorite: ʾARIŚ-AN, ḪA-RI-ŠA-AN (Gelb AS 21 §6 Index of Names no. 2190), A-ru-si-AN (Huffmon APNM p. 22)
- Ugaritic: *ʾrš* — ʾrš 'to request, wish, demand, claim' (CUC); irš 'demand' (DULAT)
- Akkadian: *erēšu* — erēšu 'to request'—the Erišti-DN class ('Requested-of-DN', e.g. Erišti-Aya) among the commonest OB female names
- Safaitic: ʾrš ×12 + ʾršt ×11 + ʾršn—the exact shape ʾAriš-ān (Harding 1971 p. 37)
- Hebrew: *ʾărešet* — ʾărešet 'request' (Ps 21:3, hapax); naming-motif parallel Šāʾûl 'Asked-For' and Hannah's Samuel etymology (1 Sam 1:20)

## Attestations

- [THE Zb 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/THEZb2/index.md>): A-RE-SA-NA — 'The Requested One'—votive birth-name, √ʾ-r-š 'to request, desire' + hypocoristic -ān

## Commentary

THE Zb 2, an Akrotiri clay vessel, the sole word: the owner's or dedicant's slot. ʾAriš-ān 'The Requested One', a votive birth-name from √ʾ-r-š 'to request, desire' with the hypocoristic -ān: the Amorite name ʾARIŚ-AN, ḪA-RI-ŠA-AN (Gelb 1980, no. 2190), -NA writing its closing n; Ug. /ʾ-r-š/ 'to request, wish, demand' (DULAT 104), Heb. ʾărešet 'desire' (Ps 21:3; HALOT 92), pre-Islamic Arabian ʾršn (Harding 1971, 37). RE writes ri, as KI-RE-TA₂ beside KI-RI-TA₂. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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

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