# MA-RI-TA₂ (marʾ(i)tā)

> the Lady (divine title; personal-name element)

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

- Reading: marʾ(i)tā
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*marʾ-at-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/55/index.md>) 'woman'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MA (ma) · RI (ri) · TA₂ (ta₂)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Sabaic: *mrʾt* — mrʾt 'woman, girl; lady, divine or human' (Biella 1982, 283)
- Akkadian: mārtu (marʾatu, merʾatu) 'daughter, girl, woman' (CAD M/1 300)
- Aramaic: *mārtā* — mārtā 'lady' (Martha)
- Arabic: marʾat-, imraʾat- 'woman'
- Amorite: MA-RA-TUM maʾratum, MA-RI-TUM maʾritum, names (Gelb 1980, nos. 4536, 4541)

## Attestations

- [HT 90](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT90/index.md>): SI-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.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Biella: Biella, Joan Copeland (1982), Dictionary of Old South Arabic: Sabaean Dialect. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 25)
- CAD M/1: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1977), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 10, M, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- 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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