# KI-TA-I (gittī)

> of the (olive-)press, press-estate (nisbe -ī on gitt- 'press; farmstead, estate')

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

- Reading: gittī
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*gint-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3779/index.md>) 'wine or olive press' 1, 'farmstead, estate' 2
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KI (ki) · TA (ta) · I (i)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *gittu* — gt /gittu/ 'wine or olive press; farmstead, estate' (DULAT 307)
- Hebrew: גַּת *gat* — gat (גַּת) 'winepress'; gittî 'Gittite, of Gath' (2 Sam 6:10), pl. gittîm (2 Sam 15:18), the same nisbe

## Attestations

- [HT 123+124a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT123~2B124a/index.md>): KI-TA-I OLIV 31 — press-estate(?)

## Commentary

KI for /gi/, TA for /tt/, -I for the nisbe -ī. HT 123+124a, two joining palimpsest fragments (GORILA I 210–211): KI-TA-I · OLIV 31, *308 8¼, KI-RO 1, the first of four parties in an olive and pressed-oil account beside PU-*131A, SA-RU (šarru) and DA-TU; KU-RO OLIV 93½. A press-estate fits as a party beside a royal establishment: Ug. gt 'press; farmstead, estate' (DULAT 307). Rival: a personal or institutional name. One attestation; HT 29 has [?]-KI-TA, a name. See *312-TA.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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 I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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