# PA-RA-NE (barāne)

> short form of A-PA-RA-NE, 'the crosser'; rival 'creator'

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

- Reading: barāne
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʕVbur- 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 ~ \*ʕa/ibr- 5](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1543/index.md>) 'cross' 1, 'extend beyond (something)' 2, 'move through, pass over, by, travel (along a road)' 3, 'inundate, invade' 4, '(river) bank' 5, 'go far away' 6
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PA (pa) · RA (ra) · NE (ne)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *ʿābar* — ʿābar 'to cross over, pass' (HALOT 778)
- Ugaritic: *ʕ-b-r* — /ʕ-b-r/ 'to pass, go through' (DULAT 141)
- Akkadian: *ebēru* — ebēru A 'to cross (water)' (CAD E 10)

## Attestations

- [HT 115a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115a/index.md>): PA-RA-NE 1 — short form of A-PA-RA-NE, 'crosser' or 'creator', 1
- [HT 115b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115b/index.md>): \]RU PA-RA-NE ¹⁄₂ — short form of A-PA-RA-NE, 'crosser' or 'creator', ½

## Commentary

HT 115a: PA-RA-NE 1 in a GRA+BOSm list beside *301-U-RA naura 'light', SE-KU-TU, KA-PO-RU and RI-SU-MA; HT 115b: ½; both by Scribe 8, who also writes A-PA-RA-NE (HT 96a and b). The short form of A-PA-RA-NE, without the initial ʿayin of √ʿ-b-r or the prosthetic aleph of √b-r-ʾ, 'the crosser', with 'creator' the rival. Amorite Ḥa-pí-ra-an, of the element ḤPR ḥapir-, *ʿapir-, the ʿApiru/Ḥabiru word (Huffmon 1965, 36, 202), and ʾAPR-AN AP-RA-AN (Gelb 1980, no. 863) match it with -ān, cuneiform ḫ writing ʿ. Borger derives ʿapīru from ʿ-p-r 'dust' (apud Huffmon 1965, 202); PA writes p and b alike.

## Same root

- [A-PA-RA-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-PA-RA-NE/index.md>) (ʿabrāne)

## In the onomasticon

- [PA-RA-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/PA-RA-NE/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
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- 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
- CAD E: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1958), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 4, E. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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