O-RA₂

the Foremost (name element), from 'priority, supremacy'

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Reading: ʾŌl
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *ʾawl- ‘precede, be first’ 1, ‘priority, supremacy’…
Kind: Personal name
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Ugariticảwlảwl ‘priority, supremacy’ (?), 1.12 II 56, ‘Cf. ảwldn’ (DULAT 128)
Arabicʾāla, ʾawila ‘to precede, to be first’ (Lane 126)
Eblaiteʾūlʾūl ‘strength’, a name element, √ʾwl ‘to be strong, foremost’ (Pagan 1998, elements 1971–1972)

Attestations1 cited

HT 6aO-RA₂-DI-NE 2

Commentary

Attested only within O-RA₂-DI-NE ʾŌl-dīn (HT 6a .4). ʾōl < *ʾawl, O writing ʾō < *ʾaw as in O-SU-QA-RE ʾō Sukar, RA₂ its primary value la. Dietrich and Loretz read ảwl in 1.12 II 56 as an address, ‘oh Erster!’ (DULAT 128). Rival: ʾil ‘god’, as in ỉldn (DULAT 52), O for ʾi. One witness.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.