MA-TI-ZA-I-TE

Protector of the olive trees (personal name; matiʿ 'protector' + zayt 'olive tree'); rival Hurrian mat-

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Reading
Matiʿ-zayti
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*mutaʕ- ‘bring away’ + *zayt- ‘olive, olive tree’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • AmoriteMTʿ ‘to protect’: jamattiʿ, mataʿa, matiʿum (Gelb 1980, 25); names MATI+ʾIL, MA-TI-DINGIR; MATI+ʾAHL-I, MA-TI-IA-LI; MATI+TIWR-UM, MA-TI-TI-RUM (Gelb 1980, nos. 4568, 4570, 4573)
  • Hebrewzayitzayit ‘olive tree, olive’ (HALOT 268); Zêtān, a man of Benjamin, ‘who has dealings with olive trees’ (1 Chr 7:10; HALOT 269)
  • Ugaritic𐎇𐎚ztzt ‘olive; olive tree; olive grove’ (DULAT 984)

Attestations1 cited

  1. PK 1MA-TI-ZA-I-TE 1Protector of the olive trees (personal name), 1; rival Hurrian mat-

Commentary

PK 1 .7 MA-TI-ZA-I-TE 1, whole and undotted, in a roster of names each counted 1, in the closing MA- group with MA-TE-TI and MA-KA-I-TA (GORILA I 281). MA-TI matiʿ ‘protector’, the ʿ unwritten, spelt MA-TI- as in the Amorite names Matiʿ-ʾIl, Matiʿ-ʾAhli and Matiʿ-Tiwrum (Gelb 1980, nos. 4568, 4570, 4573); ZA-I-TE zayt ‘olive tree’, I the glide y, the noun that writes the OLIV logogram. Matiʿ with a noun, as Matiʿ-ʾAhli. Rival: Hurrian mat- (NPN 233–234: Matip-tešup, Mat-teja), which leaves ZA-I unread. Ugaritic tmtʕ stands under |m-t-ʕ| ‘to take away; to help, rescue’, with mātiʕ ‘helper, saviour’ in ma-ti-DINGIR (GlOS 2, 58). Weak point: no Matiʿ-zayt name is attested. One attestation. Cf. MA-KA-I-TA.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon