MI-NU-TE

amount, number; counting, reckoning

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Reading
minūt
Confidence
Probable
Root
*mVnVw- ~ *ʾVmVn- ‘count’ 1, ‘test, try’ 2, ‘be certain…’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
#57 of the top 100

Compared forms

  • Akkadianminūtuminūtu ‘amount, number; contingent; standard of coinage’ (CAD M/2 98); minûtu, cross-reference to manûtu (CAD M/2 99); manû ‘count’
  • Ugaritic𐎎𐎐𐎚mntmnt ‘portion, ration’ and ‘enumeration, list’ (GlOS 2, 45)
  • Hebrewmānāhmānāh ‘count, number, allot’ and derivatives
  • ArabicManāt, a remote divine-name comparison from the same apportioning semantic field

Attestations4 cited

  1. HT 106MI-NU-TE CYP 6 ¹⁄₂amount, number; counting or reckoning
  2. HT 86a3DMI-NU-TE 20amount, number; counting or reckoning
  3. HT 95a3DMI-NU-TE 10amount, number; counting or reckoning
  4. HT 95b3DMI-NU-TE 10amount, number; counting or reckoning

Commentary

HT 86a under A-DU and HT 95a–b list MI-NU-TE after DA-ME in grain allocations (HT 86a DA-ME GRA+B 20, MI-NU-TE 20; HT 95a–b DA-ME 10, MI-NU-TE 10), and HT 106 opens MI-NU-TE CYP 6½. Akkadian minūtu: CAD M/2 98 gives ‘amount, number’, and mi-nu-te is written in Tiglath-pileser I’s tally of game, itti mi-nu-te annite ‘with this count’ (AKA 143 iv 33), and in an obscure Middle Assyrian ana mi-nu-te (Ebeling, Parfümrez. 26 ii 20; both CAD M/2 99). Linear A does not mark vowel length, and final TE may carry a support vowel. Rival: a goddess, Amorite Ma-nu-tum (Gelb 1980, no. 4528) and Arabic Manāt (Q 53:20), both with a where MI writes i. See MI+*301.

On the 3D inscriptions2 inscriptions

HT 95a–bHaghia Triada2×…mi-nu-te…mi-nu-te……HT 86aHaghia Triadami-nu-te
Linear A Lexicon