# MA-RE (mārē)

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

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

- Reading: mārē
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*marʾ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/53/index.md>) 'son, boy' 1, 'child' 2, 'lord' 3, 'man' 4, 'husband' 5
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MA (ma) · RE (re)

## Compared forms

- Eblaite: *mar-a* — mar-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)

## Attestations

- [HT 55a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT55a/index.md>): MA-RE 1 — lord, 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.

## In the onomasticon

- [MA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/MA-RE/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998; DULAT
- 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
- 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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