# I-TA-JA (ʾIttaya)

> personal name, 'with me (is God)', hypocoristic in -aya (cf. Hebrew ʾIttay)

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

- Reading: ʾIttaya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʾVt-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0601/index.md>) 'with'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · TA (ta) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: ʾIttay (אִתַּי), Ittai the Gittite (2 Sam 15:19; HALOT 102); Ittai son of Ribai (2 Sam 23:29)
- Old Babylonian: it-ta-ia Ittāya, a woman at Kiš (de Boer 2014, 402)
- Neo-Assyrian: {m}i-ta-a-a (Schøyen 52, Assur)
- Linear B: i-ta-ja, a woman (KN Ap 769.2); o-pi i-ta-ja[ (KN Od 537.3)

## Attestations

- [HT 28a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT28a/index.md>): I-TA-JA OLE+DI 10 — ʾIttaya (personal name); OLE+DI 10

## Commentary

HT 28a: I-TA-JA OLE+DI 10, the last recipient of the A-SI-JA-KA list, after A-RU-DA-RA GRA 5. Gemination unwritten; -aya written JA. Hebrew ʾIttay, the short form of ʾItīʾēl 'With me is God', Akk. Ili-ittia (HALOT 102, 44): Ittai the Gittite, who marches with the Cherethites and Pelethites (2 Sam 15:18–19), and Ittai the Benjaminite (2 Sam 23:29). Rival: Noth's 'El exists' (HALOT 44). Linear B i-ta-ja is a woman's name at Knossos (KN Ap 769.2): the name outlives Linear A on Crete, which fixes the name but not its language. Two consonants, one attestation.

## Same root

- [I-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-TI/index.md>) (ʾitti)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; de Boer 2014; HALOT
- 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
- de Boer, Rients (2014), Amorites in the Early Old Babylonian Period. 

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