# AU-RE-TE (ʾawrēt)

> luminous one (feminine)

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

- Reading: ʾawrēt
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*ʾVr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1462/index.md>) 'day' 1, 'light' 2, 'sun' 3, 'fire, heat' 4, 'set fire to' 5
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: AU (au) · RE (re) · TE (te)
- Rank: #73 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *ʾôrâ* — ʾôrâ 'light, brightness', feminine, Esth 8:16 (HALOT 25)
- Ugaritic: *ár* — ár 'light' (DULAT 91)
- Phoenician: 𐤀𐤓 *ʾr* — ʾr 'light' (Krahmalkov 70)
- Amorite: *ʾWR* — ʾWR 'shine': ʾūrum 'light', jāʾwir (Gelb AS 21, 14)

## Attestations

- [KH 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH6/index.md>): AU-RE-TE \*306 1 — luminous one (f.); *306 1

## Commentary

KH 6, a Khania cyperus distribution tablet: a personal name or epithet. √ʾ-w-r 'to shine, be light', Heb. ʾōr < *ʾawr 'light', with feminine -ēt. Rival: -t also forms abstracts and unit nouns (Fischer 2002, §64), so ʾawrēt is 'light' itself, and the feminine rests on the name slot alone. See U-RE-WI.

## Same root

- [U-RE-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-RE-WI/index.md>) (ʾūr-lēwī)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Fischer, Wolfdietrich (2002), A Grammar of Classical Arabic. Yale Language Series,Yale 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
- 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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