MI-TU

personal name, 'dead one'

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Reading: mītu
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *mw/yt ‘to die’
Kind: Personal name
Language: Semitic
Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

Akkadianmītumītu ‘dead’ (CAD M/2 140)
Hebrewmētmēt ‘dead’, participle of mût ‘to die’ (HALOT 562)
Amoriterival: MUT-UMrival: MUT-UM ‘man’ in names (Gelb 1980, nos. 4827–4831)
Ugariticrival: mtrival: mt ‘man’ (DULAT 590)

Attestations1 cited

HT 117a 3DMI-TU 1dead one (PN)

Commentary

HT 117a: MI-TU 1, a recipient in the roster under MA-KA-RI-TE · KI-RO, with U-SU, KU-PA₃-NU and TE-JA-RE. mītu ‘dead one’, a name of the substitute type. HT 135a ]-MI-TU is the end of a longer word. Weak point: two signs. Rival: *mi/ut- ‘man’, with i in Tigre mit and Heb. mətīm. One attestation. See JA-MA-U-TI.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 117a–bHaghia Triada…mi-tu…