# MA-TI-TI (mattitt(u))

> gift

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

- Reading: mattitt(u)
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ytn ~ \*ntn](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2608/index.md>) 'give'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MA (ma) · TI (ti) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *mattat* — mattat 'gift' < *mattant (1 Kgs 13:7; Prov 25:14; Eccl 3:13; 5:18; Ezek 46:5, 11; HALOT 656)
- Phoenician: 𐤌𐤕𐤕 *mtt* — mtt 'gift' (HALOT 656)
- Aramaic: מתנא *JArm.* — JArm. מתנא 'gift' (HALOT 654)
- Emar: *mu-ta-at-te-e muttat* — mu-ta-at-te-e muttat 'gift', a name element (GlOS 2, 79)
- Eblaite: *ma-da-nu mātanu* — ma-da-nu mātanu 'gift', a name (Pagan 1998, row 3564)
- Amorite: MATAN-I, MA-AT-TA-NI (Gelb 1980, no. 4445); Tuttul ma-ta-an 'Gift' (Buck 2018, 342)

## Attestations

- [HT Zd 155](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTZd155/index.md>): A-JU NA-MA-MA-TI-TI-A319
- [HT Zd 157+156](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTZd157~2B156/index.md>): WI-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.

## Same root

- [JE-TA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JE-TA-NA/index.md>) (Yatana)
- [A-TA-NA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-NA-TE/index.md>) (ʾAtanat)
- [NA-TU-\*301-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NA-TU-*301-NE/index.md>) (natūnān)
- [A-DU-NI-TA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU-NI-TA-NA/index.md>) (ʾAddu-nittāna)
- [A-TA-NA-JE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-NA-JE/index.md>) (ʾatanāya)
- [I-TI-NI-SA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-TI-NI-SA/index.md>) (ʾItniša)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998; Gelb 1980; Buck 2018; GlOS 2
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- Duhoux, Yves (1978), Une analyse linguistique du linéaire A. In Duhoux, Yves (ed.), Études minoennes I: Le linéaire A,Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain 14,Peeters,65–129
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- Buck, Mary Ellen (2018), The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: The Historical Origins of the Bronze Age Polity of Ugarit Based upon Linguistic, Literary, and Archaeological Evidence. 
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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