# MA-TI-ZA-I-TE (Matiʿ-zayti)

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

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

- Reading: Matiʿ-zayti
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*mutaʕ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/854/index.md>) 'bring away' + [\*zayt-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2694/index.md>) 'olive, olive tree'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MA (ma) · TI (ti) · ZA (za) · I (i) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: MTʿ '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)
- Hebrew: *zayit* — zayit 'olive tree, olive' (HALOT 268); Zêtān, a man of Benjamin, 'who has dealings with olive trees' (1 Chr 7:10; HALOT 269)
- Ugaritic: 𐎇𐎚 *zt* — zt 'olive; olive tree; olive grove' (DULAT 984)

## Attestations

- [PK 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PK1/index.md>): MA-TI-ZA-I-TE 1 — Protector 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.

## Same root

- [OLIV](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLIV/index.md>)

## In the onomasticon

- [MA-TI-ZA-I-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/MA-TI-ZA-I-TE/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; HALOT; GlOS 2
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, 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
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- 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
- 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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