# PA₃-E (bē)

> in, at (preposition)

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

- Reading: bē
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*bV--](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0007/index.md>) 'in'
- Kind: Particle
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PA₃ (pa₃) · E (e)

## Compared forms

- : Hebrew בְּ- (bə-); Ugaritic b-; Amarna Canaanite bi-; Phoenician b-

## Attestations

- [PK Za 8](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa8/index.md>): \]NU PA₃-E JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-\*307-PU₂-RE TU-ME-I — in, at … (possible preposition bē)

## Commentary

PK Za 8 ]NU · PA₃-E · JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-*307-PU₂-RE · TU-ME-I: PA₃-E stands between dividers before the vocative of Dikte (GORILA IV 24–27). bē 'in, at': PA₃, the proposed value /ba~be/, + E, the b- preposition, Ugaritic b 'in, at' (DULAT 196), Hebrew bə-, Amarna bi-. The divider after it is Ugaritic practice with a one-syllable proclitic, b. bnk (CAT 1.6:I:46), l. mlkt (CAT 2.12:1; Tropper 2000, §21.412a). Weak point: one attestation. See JA-DI-KI-TU.

## Same root

- [PA₃](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA~E2~82~83/index.md>) (bi=)
- [\*333-DI-NA-SU-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*333-DI-NA-SU-KA/index.md>) (bīdi Našūka)
- [\*333-DI-SU-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*333-DI-SU-KA/index.md>) (bīdi Sūka)
- [PI-KU-ZU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-KU-ZU/index.md>) (bi-kuṯ)
- [PI-MI-NA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-MI-NA-TE/index.md>) (bi-mināti)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Tropper 2000
- Tropper, Josef (2000), Ugaritische Grammatik. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 273,Ugarit-Verlag
- 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
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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