MA-TI-TI

gift

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Reading
mattitt(u)
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ytn ~ *ntn ‘give’
Kind
Ritual
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewmattatmattat ‘gift’ < *mattant (1 Kgs 13:7; Prov 25:14; Eccl 3:13; 5:18; Ezek 46:5, 11; HALOT 656)
  • Phoenician𐤌𐤕𐤕mttmtt ‘gift’ (HALOT 656)
  • AramaicמתנאJArm.JArm. מתנא ‘gift’ (HALOT 654)
  • Emarmu-ta-at-te-e muttatmu-ta-at-te-e muttat ‘gift’, a name element (GlOS 2, 79)
  • Eblaitema-da-nu mātanuma-da-nu mātanu ‘gift’, a name (Pagan 1998, row 3564)
  • AmoriteMATAN-I, MA-AT-TA-NI (Gelb 1980, no. 4445); Tuttul ma-ta-an ‘Gift’ (Buck 2018, 342)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT Zd 1553DA-JU NA-MA-MA-TI-TI-A319
  2. HT Zd 157+156WI-JA-SU-MA-TI-TI-A319

Commentary

HT Zd 155 and HT Zd 157, each time right before A319 with no divider before MA; the cut rests on the ending the two graffiti share (Duhoux 1978, §29 A6). Heb. mattat ‘gift’ < *mattant, Ph. mtt (HALOT 656). MA-TI-TI writes the i-grade *mattint- > mattitt-, the final TI a dead vowel. WI-JA-SU on HT Zd 157 names the recipient. The rival √š-m-ṭ ‘release’ parse needs TI-TI to write a geminate. See NA-TU-*301-NE.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).

Linear A Lexicon