# MA-KA-I-TA (Makīt)

> personal name (f.), the feminine of Makī (MA-KA-I-SE); rival the Egyptian name mkj·t

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

- Reading: Makīt
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳVwVm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1134/index.md>) 'stand (up), rise'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MA (ma) · KA (ka) · I (i) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: *me-ki-im maqīm* — me-ki-im maqīm 'Established', the masculine (Buck 2019, 307; Gelb 1980 no. 4648 ME-QWIM, no. 4649 ME-KWIN)
- Egyptian: mkj·t, women and men, Middle Kingdom (Ranke I, 166.17); mk·t (Ranke I, 166.19); rival

## Attestations

- [PK 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PK1/index.md>): MA-KA-I-TA 1 — Makīt (f.), 1
- [ZA 5b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA5b/index.md>): MA-KA-I-TA 3 — Makīt (f.), a recipient, 3

## Commentary

PK 1 MA-KA-I-TA 1 closes a roster of names entered singly (A-DU-ZA, TA₂-TA-RE, O-KA-MI-ZA-SI-I-NA); ZA 5b MA-KA-I-TA 3 follows SI-PI-KI 1½ in the wine register, a recipient. The feminine of Makī (MA-KA-I-SE, ZA 8), TA the feminine t. Egyptian writes the name mkj·t, borne by women and men in the Middle Kingdom (Ranke I, 166.17), I for j sign for sign. Rival: the Egyptian name mkj·t as a loan.

## Same root

- [MA-KA-I-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-KA-I-SE/index.md>) (Makī-se)
- [QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-MI-*47-NA-RA/index.md>) (qāmī šū-nāra)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb; Buck; Ranke
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Buck, Mary E. (2019), The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: Historical Implications of Linguistic and Archaeological Parallels. Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 8,Brill, Leiden

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