# MI-RU-TA-RA-RE (Mīru-darār)

> Free-running Bull, a bull that roams free (personal name); rival Murr-darār 'Flowing Myrrh'

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

- Reading: Mīru-darār
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*mir(Vʾ)-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2245/index.md>) 'bull' + [\*dVr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/503/index.md>) 'run freely' 1, 'run tirelessly' 2, 'drive away, make go' 3, 'to come upon suddenly, assault' 4, 'abhorrence' 5
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MI (mi) · RU (ru) · TA (ta) · RA (ra) · RE (re)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *mīru* — mīru A 'young bull', mīrtu 'cow' (CAD M/2 109); darāru A 'become free, move about freely, run off' (CAD D 109); andurārum 'freedom, manumission' (Huehnergard 1997, glossary)
- Hebrew: מְרִיא *mərîʾ* — mərîʾ (מְרִיא) 'fatted steer' (HALOT 635); dərôr (דְּרוֹר) 'freedom' (HALOT 230); mor-dərôr (מׇר־דְּרוֹר) 'flowing myrrh' (Exod 30:23)

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>): MI-RU-TA-RA-RE 1 — personal name, 'Free-running Bull' (a bull that roams free); rival Murr-darār 'Flowing Myrrh'

## Commentary

HT 117a MI-RU-TA-RA-RE 1, intact, in the roster under MA-KA-RI-TE · KI-RO, between U-DI-MI and TE-JA-RE Teyar, with MA-RU Maruʾ 'Fattened' on the same list. MI-RU mīru 'young bull' (CAD M/2 109), as MU-RU mūru; TA-RA-RE darār, Akkadian darāru 'become free, move about freely, run off' (CAD D 109), as DU-RA-RE durar, TA for d as in TA-DI dādī. Rival: Murr-darār 'Flowing Myrrh', Hebrew mor-dərôr (Exod 30:23; #K0153), MI-RU as MI+JA+RU murru.

## In the onomasticon

- [MI-RU-TA-RA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/MI-RU-TA-RA-RE/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD M/2; CAD D; Huehnergard 1997
- Huehnergard, John (1997), A Grammar of Akkadian. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 45)
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- 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
- 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

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