# MI-TU (mītu)

> personal name, 'dead one'

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

- Reading: mītu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*mw/yt](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/945/index.md>) 'to die'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MI (mi) · TU (tu)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *mītu* — mītu 'dead' (CAD M/2 140)
- Hebrew: *mēt* — mēt 'dead', participle of mût 'to die' (HALOT 562)
- Amorite: *rival: MUT-UM* — rival: MUT-UM 'man' in names (Gelb 1980, nos. 4827–4831)
- Ugaritic: *rival: mt* — rival: mt 'man' (DULAT 590)

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>): MI-TU 1 — dead 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.

## Same root

- [JA-MA-U-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-MA-U-TI/index.md>) (Yamwuti)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- 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
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts

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