MA-RI-TA₂

the Lady (divine title; personal-name element)

𐙁MAAB8056 entries𐘭RIAB5344 entries𐘷TA₂AB666 entries
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Reading
marʾ(i)tā
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*marʾ-at- ‘woman’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

  • Sabaicmrʾtmrʾt ‘woman, girl; lady, divine or human’ (Biella 1982, 283)
  • Akkadianmārtu (marʾatu, merʾatu) ‘daughter, girl, woman’ (CAD M/1 300)
  • Aramaicmārtāmārtā ‘lady’ (Martha)
  • Arabicmarʾat-, imraʾat- ‘woman’
  • AmoriteMA-RA-TUM maʾratum, MA-RI-TUM maʾritum, names (Gelb 1980, nos. 4536, 4541)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 90SI-RU-MA-RI-TA₂ GRA 1

Commentary

Second element of HT 90 SI-RU-MA-RI-TA₂, written as one word (GORILA I 143): Ṣill-marʾita ‘Shade of the Lady’, the Amorite pattern of Ṣill-Haddu (Gelb 1980, no. 6482) and Ṣill-ʿAnat, with a goddess (no. 4716). Feminine of marʾ- ‘lord’: Sabaic mrʾt ‘woman, girl; lady, divine or human’ (Biella 1982, 283), Akkadian mārtu (marʾatu, merʾatu) (CAD M/1 300), Aramaic mārtā ‘lady’ (the name Martha), Arabic marʾat-. The glottal stop is unwritten, and TA₂ gives final -ta as in KI-RE-TA₂. See MA-RE.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon