# A-RI (harrī)

> mountain of (construct state before divine names)

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

- Reading: harrī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*har-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0084/index.md>) 'mountain'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · RI (ri)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: הַר *har* — har (הַר) 'mountain' (< *harr-); construct har- as in har Sinai, har Tsiyyon
- Emar: *ha-ar-ri* — ha-ar-ri 'mountain' (Pentiuc 2001, 57)
- Amarna Canaanite: ḪUR.SAG : ḫa-ar-ri, a gloss (GlOS 1, 220)
- Eblaite: *hārrum* — hārrum 'mountain'; hārru-Šum 'a mountain is Šum', names (Pagan 1998, rows 46, 1002)

## Attestations

- [PH 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH6/index.md>): I-NA-WA A-RI — mountain of (construct genitive; PS *har(r)-, h- carried by plain vowel sign)

## Commentary

PH 6 .1 I-NA-WA · A-RI and .3 A-RI. harrī 'mountain of', the construct before a divine name, genitive -ī (nawā harrī DN 'dwelling of the mountain of DN'): Hebrew har (HALOT 254), Ugaritic hr 'mountain' (DULAT 341), the Amarna gloss ḫa-ar-ri on ḪUR.SAG (EA 74:20), Emar harru (Pentiuc 2001, 57); h unwritten, as in A-KI-DA-RO. Rivals: ʿalē 'upon, for' and ʾarī 'lion'; the A-RA/A-RI/A-RU triple of a, i and u argues an inflected noun against a frozen preposition, and the house dative is la- (RE/RA). Rival parse: harr-ī 'my mountain', 1cs suffix, an Ebla name (Pagan 1998, row 789). HT 141 .1 A-RI-[ runs into the break after RI (GORILA I 239), and PH 28a A-RI-JA-[ breaks after JA.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; DULAT; Pentiuc 2001; Pagan 1998; GlOS 1
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University 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
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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
- 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park
- Pentiuc, Eugen J. (2001), West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar. Harvard Semitic Studies 49,Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana

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