# A-RI-NI-TA (ʾarīnīt)

> She-of-the-Lion (feminine gentilic—priestess/cult title; cf. I-ZU-RI-NI-TA She-of-the-Bull)

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

- Reading: ʾarīnīt
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʾarway-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2120/index.md>) 'wild beast; lion'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · RI (ri) · NI (ni) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: ari lion (Gen 49:9 gur aryeh Yehudah; Num 23:24; Judg 14:8)
- Ugaritic: ary lion (KTU 1.5 i 14, Baal cycle)
- Aramaic: arya lion (Dan 6:17ff.)

## Attestations

- [HT 25a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT25a/index.md>): A-RI-NI-TA 1 — She-of-the-Lion (priestess or cult title), 1
- [ZA 8](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA8/index.md>): A-RI-NI-TA 1 ? — She-of-the-Lion (priestess or cult title), 1[

## Commentary

HT 25a and ZA 8, at two sites. ʾarīnīt 'She-of-the-Lion', the feminine gentilic -nīt on NWS ari 'lion', as I-ZU-RI-NI-TA i-ṯawrinīt 'She-of-the-Bull' takes the same -NI-TA on an animal root; bull and lion are the two central sacred animals of Minoan iconography. Both tablets enter A-RI-NI-TA with 1 in a list of personal names (HT 25a with DI-NA-U, U-RE-WI and I-KI-RA; ZA 8 with KU-TU-KO-RE and DA-I-PI-TA), so -īt here names one woman, where it also forms relational adjectives, abstracts and collectives (Fischer 2002, §§64, 116). Weak point: the lists set no title apart from a name.

## In the onomasticon

- [A-RI-NI-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-RI-NI-TA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Fischer, Wolfdietrich (2002), A Grammar of Classical Arabic. Yale Language Series,Yale University Press

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