# I-ZU-RI-NI-TA (ʾi-ṯawrīnīta)

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

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

- Reading: ʾi-ṯawrīnīta
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ṯawr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/269/index.md>) 'bull, ox'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · ZU (zu) · RI (ri) · NI (ni) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- : *Ug. ṯr/ṯrn* — Ug. 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)

## Attestations

- [PH 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH6/index.md>): I-ZU-RI-NI-TA — She-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.

## Same root

- [TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TU/index.md>) (ṯawr)
- [ZU-RI-NI-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZU-RI-NI-MA/index.md>) (Ṯūrinima)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998; GlOS 2; Huehnergard 2012; Tropper 2000; Fischer 2002
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- Tropper, Josef (2000), Ugaritische Grammatik. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 273,Ugarit-Verlag
- Fischer, Wolfdietrich (2002), A Grammar of Classical Arabic. Yale Language Series,Yale University Press
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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