# I-TI (ʾitti) > with, at (comitative preposition); on IO Za 12 ʾittī 'with me' A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: ʾitti - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*ʾVt-]() 'with' - Kind: Particle - Language: Semitic - Signs: I (i) · TI (ti) ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *itti* — itti 'with' (< *ʔin-t- + n-assimilation) - Hebrew: (אֵת *ʔitt-* — ʔēt/ʔitt- (אֵת/אִתּ־) 'with'; suffixed ʔittī (אִתִּי) 'with me' - Phoenician: *ʔt* — ʔt 'with' - Geez: *ʔǝntä* — ʔǝntä 'through, by way of' (unassimilated *ʔin-t-) ## Attestations - [HT 25b](): WI-TE-RO I-TI VIR+\[?\] 28 - [IO Za 12](): \[?\]-\[?\] JA-SA-SA-RA-ME I-TI — with (me)—comitative preposition ## Commentary HT 25b WI-TE-RO 𐄁 I-TI VIR 28 / VIR 24 / KU-RO 52: I-TI stands before the first of two personnel entries, 28 and 24 making the 52, as Akkadian ledgers write itti 'with, including' before an included subgroup. IO Za 12 ]𐄁 ]𐄁 JA-SA-SA-RA-ME 𐄁 I-TI[, set off from the formula word by a divider and broken after: bare ʾitt- 'with', its complement lost, or ʾittī 'with me' (Heb. ʾittī), a predication of the ʿimmānû-ʾēl type. PS *ʾin-t- 'with, at, via', the extended form of *ʾin (Huehnergard 2019, §3.6): *ʾinti > ʾitti, the assimilated n and the geminate unwritten, the glottal onset on the bare vowel sign. Ugaritic prefers ʿm 'with'; ʾitt- stands with Akkadian and Canaanite, a Proto-Semitic retention. Rival on HT 25b: a personal name, in the name–VIR–number layout of the rosters. ## Same root - [I-TA-JA]() (ʾIttaya) ## References - Reading: di Mino - Huehnergard, John (2019), Proto-Semitic. In Huehnergard, John; Pat-El, Na‘ama (eds.), The Semitic Languages,Routledge,49–79 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-TI/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.