# MI-TA (mitta)

> personal name (Mitanni Indo-Aryan type)

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

- Reading: mitta
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Indo-European
- Signs: MI (mi) · TA (ta)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Nuzi: Mittar-atti (Mi-it-ta-ra-at-ti), name element mittar- (Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943, s.v. MITTAR-ATTI)
- Amarna: Ša-mitta, filed with Indo-Aryan su- (Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943, element list, s.v. šu)

## Attestations

- [HT 128a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT128a/index.md>): MI-TA GRA+PA ¹⁄₂

## Commentary

Personal name on HT 128a, MI-TA GRA+PA ½. The closest name is Nuzi Mittar-atti, element mittar- (Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943, s.v. MITTAR-ATTI), which Gelb sets among the non-Hurrian names with apparent Kassite features (ibid., 196) and Gentile analyses as Mitanni Indo-Aryan *mitra-atthi- 'having Mitra [or a friend] as his guest' (Gentile 2019, 157); no Kassite element list has mittar- (Clay 1912, 36–41; Pinches 1917, 111–113). Rival: Indo-Aryan -mitta, as Amarna Ša-mitta (Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943, element list, s.v. šu). Bare MI-TA occurs only on HT 128a; SI-MI-TA (HT 96a), A-MI-TA (ZA 10b) and the Troy whorls contain the string but are separate words. See SI-MI-TA, MI-DA (t/d variant), A-MI-DA-O.

## In the onomasticon

- [MI-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/MI-TA/index.md>): Personal name, Indo-European

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943; Gentile 2019; Clay 1912; Pinches 1917
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- Gentile, Simone (2019), Indo-Iranian personal names in Mitanni: A source for cultural reconstruction. Onoma,54,137–159
- Pinches, Theophilus G. (1917), The Language of the Kassites. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,49,101–114
- Clay, Albert T. (1912), Personal Names from Cuneiform Inscriptions of the Cassite Period. Yale University Press, New Haven (Yale Oriental Series 1)

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