I-ZU-RI-NI-TA

She-of-the-Bull (feminine personal/divine name)

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Reading
ʾi-ṯawrīnīta
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ṯawr- ‘bull, ox’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Ug. ṯr/ṯrnUg. ṯr/ṯrn "bull" (KTU deity epithet, PN element); Heb. שׁוֹר šōr "ox" (< *ṯawr with interdental→sibilant); Ar. ṯawr "bull"; Ebla šu-ra, šu-ru₁₂, su-rí-a, ‘bull’ names (Pagan 1998, rows 4404, 4410, 4294); Euphratian šu-ra-nu, ab-du-šu-ri-im (GlOS 2, 330)

Attestations1 cited

  1. PH 63DI-ZU-RI-NI-TAShe-of-the-Bull (feminine divine name; sister form A-RI-NI-TA 'She-of-the-Lion', HT25a/ZA8)

Commentary

PH 6: I-NA-WA · A-RI / I-ZU-RI-NI-TA / A-RI / I-DA-PA₃-I-SA-RI, the name governed by A-RI harrī ‘mountain of’. Feminine counterpart of ZU-RI-NI-MA (KN Zb 52, masculine with mimation). I- is a prosthetic vowel (cf. I-DA-MA-TE beside DA-MA-TE); ZU-RI-NI writes the base ṯawrīn-, the bull word with relational -īn, ZU read ṯu, a proposed value: Ug. ṯr ‘bull’ (DULAT 916), Old Syrian ṯuwr ‘bull; DN’ (GlOS 2, 330). -TA is the feminine -t where the masculine has -MA. -TA is the diptote genitive of a feminine proper name after A-RI, as Ug. ḥāmiyātu ʾugarita ‘the walls of Ugarit’ (Huehnergard 2012, 40; Tropper 2000, §54.112) and Arb. names in -at of more than three consonants (Fischer 2002, §153). Weak point: ZU = ṯu is a proposed value. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

PH 6Phaistosi-zu-ri-ni-ta
Linear A Lexicon