# A-TU-RI-SI-TI (ha-Turisīt)

> the Tylissian (f.): provenance label on a jar

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

- Reading: ha-Turisīt
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: ha- + Turis- (Pre-Greek; cf. suffix -ισ(σ)-, Beekes 2014, 37, 39) + -īt
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · TU (tu) · RI (ri) · SI (si) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *ha-kkĕnaʿănît* — ha-kkĕnaʿănît 'the Canaanite (woman)' (Gen 46:10; Exod 6:15; 1 Chr 2:3), ha-mmôʾābît (2 Chr 24:26): article + feminine gentilic -ît
- Ugaritic: 𐎃𐎚𐎊𐎚 *ḫtyt* — ḫtyt GN f. 'Hittite', hmš ddm l ḫtyt 'five cauldronsful for the Hittite (people?)', KTU 4.269:3 (DULAT 409); kd (I) n. f. 'jar' (DULAT 424)
- Amorite: GUBL-AJIT-UM, Gu-ub-la-ji-tum 'the Byblian (woman)' (Gelb 1980, no. 1795)
- Linear B: tu-ri-so Tylissos (KN Ce 59, Da, Db, Dd, Dh); ethnic tu-ri-si-jo (KN E 668, Og 833), fem. tu-ri-si-ja (KN Lc 533)

## Attestations

- [KN Zb 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZb5/index.md>): A-TU-RI-SI-TI — the Tylissian (f.)

## Commentary

KN Zb 5, a clay vessel (MM IIIB), the single word A-TU-RI-SI-TI ·. Pre-Greek Turis- (LB tu-ri-so, Tylissos) with the NWS article ha- (h dropped to A, as A-KI-DA-RO) and the feminine gentilic -īt, as KA-NA-NI-TI kanaʿanītī. The feminine agrees with the jar (Ug. kd n. f. 'jar', DULAT 424; KA-DI kadd): a provenance label of the SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA genre. Linear B writes the same feminine ethnic with Greek -ia, tu-ri-si-ja (KN Lc 533.8; DMic II 378, s.v. tu-ri-si-jo). A Semitic formation on a pre-Greek stem.

## In the onomasticon

- [A-TU-RI-SI-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-TU-RI-SI-TI/index.md>): Gentilic, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; DULAT; DMic II; Beekes 2014
- 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
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- DMic II: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. II (CSIC 1993). 
- 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
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014), Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon. Brill Introductions to Indo-European Languages 2,Brill

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