# MI-NU-TE (minūt)

> amount, number; counting, reckoning

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

- Reading: minūt
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*mVnVw- ~ \*ʾVmVn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/643/index.md>) 'count' 1, 'test, try' 2, 'be certain, believe' 3, 'be secure, safe; make secure, protect' 4, 'measure, portion, share; fate' 5
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MI (mi) · NU (nu) · TE (te)
- Rank: #57 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *minūtu* — minūtu 'amount, number; contingent; standard of coinage' (CAD M/2 98); minûtu, cross-reference to manûtu (CAD M/2 99); manû 'count'
- Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎐𐎚 *mnt* — mnt 'portion, ration' and 'enumeration, list' (GlOS 2, 45)
- Hebrew: *mānāh* — mānāh 'count, number, allot' and derivatives
- Arabic: Manāt, a remote divine-name comparison from the same apportioning semantic field

## Attestations

- [HT 106](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT106/index.md>): MI-NU-TE CYP 6 ¹⁄₂ — amount, number; counting or reckoning
- [HT 86a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT86a/index.md>): MI-NU-TE 20 — amount, number; counting or reckoning
- [HT 95a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT95a/index.md>): MI-NU-TE 10 — amount, number; counting or reckoning
- [HT 95b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT95b/index.md>): MI-NU-TE 10 — amount, 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.

## Same root

- [MI+\*301](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MI~2B*301/index.md>) (minā)
- [DA-DU-MI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-MI-NE/index.md>) (dādu-Mīnō)
- [DA-MI-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-MI-NU/index.md>) (Ḏā-Mīnu)
- [PI-MI-NA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-MI-NA-TE/index.md>) (bi-mināti)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD M/2; Gelb 1980
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- CAD M/2: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1977), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 10, M, part 2. The Oriental Institute; J. J. Augustin
- 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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