# KI-RI-TA₂ (Kirīta)

> Kret (variant spelling)

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

- Reading: Kirīta
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*karVt-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2766/index.md>) 'to cut, cut off; make a covenant'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KI (ki) · RI (ri) · TA₂ (ta₂)
- Rank: #27 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- : see KI-RE-TA₂

## Attestations

- [HT 114a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT114a/index.md>): KI-RI-TA₂ — Kret(a) (toponym)
- [HT 121](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT121/index.md>): KI-RI-TA₂ OLE+QE+DI 10 — Kret(a) — toponym for Crete

## Commentary

A spelling of KI-RE-TA₂ with RI for RE; the corpus form has TA₂. HT 114a and HT 121 both pair it with SA-RA₂ in one administrative template, SA-RA₂ read as a recipient or institution, the queen or the royal establishment. Huehnergard gives Ugaritic krt /kirta/ 'Kirta' and lkrt /li-kirta/ 'belonging to the story of Kirta', and rejects 'keret' as a Ugaritic vocalization (Huehnergard 2012, 60, 68). Biblical Hebrew kərētī 'Kerethite' differs in vocalism. For Bronze Age Ki-ir-ta, see KI-RE-TA₂. See KI-RE-TA-NA.

## Same root

- [KI-RE-TA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KI-RE-TA-NA/index.md>) (Kretan)
- [KI-RE-TA₂](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KI-RE-TA~E2~82~82/index.md>) (Kirēta / Kret)

## In the onomasticon

- [KI-RI-TA₂](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KI-RI-TA~E2~82~82/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: Gordon 1966
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson

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