# I-TI-NI-SA (ʾItniša)

> ʾItniša (personal name), the Mari name IT-NU-ŠA; rival ʾitnī-ša 'her gift (portion)'

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

- Reading: ʾItniša
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ytn ~ \*ntn](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2608/index.md>) 'give'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · TI (ti) · NI (ni) · SA (sa)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: IT-NU-ŠA, Mari (Gelb 1980, AS 21, 610, no. 3828)
- Ugaritic: ỉtn PN, syll. it-ta-na[; ỉtnn 'present' (DULAT 119)

## Attestations

- [ZA 15a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA15a/index.md>): I-TI-NI-SA 10

## Commentary

ZA 15a .2 I-TI-NI-SA 10, intact, second entry under the first wine heading, after QE-SI-ZU-E 57 (GORILA III 183). ʾi-t-n-ša sign for sign as the Mari name IT-NU-ŠA (Gelb 1980, AS 21, 610); NI for nu is a vowel mismatch only. Rival: ʾitnī-ša 'her gift (portion)', Ugaritic ỉtnn 'present' (DULAT 119). One witness. See JE-TA-NA, A-DU-NI-TA-NA and MA-TI-TI.

## Same root

- [JE-TA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JE-TA-NA/index.md>) (Yatana)
- [A-TA-NA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-NA-TE/index.md>) (ʾAtanat)
- [NA-TU-\*301-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NA-TU-*301-NE/index.md>) (natūnān)
- [MA-TI-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-TI-TI/index.md>) (mattitt(u))
- [A-DU-NI-TA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU-NI-TA-NA/index.md>) (ʾAddu-nittāna)
- [A-TA-NA-JE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-NA-JE/index.md>) (ʾatanāya)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; DULAT
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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 III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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