MA-RE

lord, master (title, an entry in a KI-RO roster); rival a personal name

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Reading
mārē
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*marʾ- ‘son, boy’ 1, ‘child’ 2, ‘lord’ 3, ‘man’ 4…
Kind
Personnel
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Eblaitemar-amar-a ‘the lord’ / ‘the son’ (Pagan 1998, rows 3651–3652)
  • Linear A-MA-RE mārē in JI-NU-MA-RE yinu-mārē ‘wine-lords’ (ZA 4a, 5b, 15a)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 55aMA-RE 1lord, master (title, the -MA-RE of JI-NU-MA-RE 'wine-lords'); rival a personal name

Commentary

HT 55a .1 ]KI-RO · MA-RE 1, whole and undotted, the first of single entries owed (GORILA I 106–107). mā-rē, the -MA-RE of JI-NU-MA-RE ‘wine-lords’; Aramaic mārēʾ ‘lord’, mārēʾ malkîn ‘lord of kings’ (Dan 2:47), and Ebla mar-a ‘the lord’ (Pagan 1998, row 3651). Ugarit’s mrủ, mur-u, is a class name of uncertain etymology (DULAT 564). Rival: a personal name. Weak point: MA-RE stands alone among single entries owed. One witness. See MA-RI-TA₂.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon