# PI-MI-NA-TE (bi-mināti)

> by the portions (broken before PI); rivals 'by the recitation', minḥâ 'offering'

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

- Reading: bi-mināti
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*bV--](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0007/index.md>) 'in' + [\*mVnVw- ~ \*ʾVmVn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/643/index.md>) 'count' 1, 'test, try' 2, 'be certain, believe' 3, 'be secure, safe; make secure, protect' 4, 'measure, portion, share; fate' 5
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PI (pi) · MI (mi) · NA (na) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎁 *b* — b 'in, by' (DULAT 196); mnt (I) 'portion, ration' (DULAT 558)
- Hebrew: *mānāh* — mānāh 'share, portion', pl. mānôt (Neh 8:10; Esth 9:19) (HALOT 599)
- Akkadian: kaspam ana maniātikunu … dināma 'give the silver according to the amount you establish' (TCL 17 14 r. 8, OB; CAD M/2 87)
- Emar: *mināt* — mināt 'portion' (GlOS 2, 45)

## Attestations

- [AP Za 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/APZa2/index.md>): \]PI-MI-NA-TE I-NA-JA-RE-TA\[ \]QA — by the portions; rival 'by the recitation'

## Commentary

AP Za 2 line 2 preserves ]PI-MI-NA-TE from a broken left edge to a divider after TE; PI and MI are written over an erasure (GORILA IV 5). bi-mināti 'by the portions': PI the proclitic bi-, as in PI-KU-ZU bi-kuṯ, and mināt 'portion', Emar mināt (GlOS 2, 45), Ugaritic mnt (I) 'portion, ration' (DULAT 558), Akk. minītu, pl. mināti, 'amount' (CAD M/2 86), √m-n-y 'count, allot', TE writing the oblique. Rival: Ugaritic mnt 'enumeration; spell, incantation' (GlOS 2, 45). Rival: Hebrew minḥâ 'gift, offering' (Lev 2:1), Ugaritic mnḥt 'tribute' (DULAT 556), with ḥ unwritten. Younger restores I-]PI-MI-NA-TE and compares PI-*34-TE (HT 116a); no I survives before PI. Weak point: the left edge is lost, so a sign may stand before PI. One attestation. See MI+*301, MI-NU-TE and DA-DU-MI-NE.

## Same root

- [MI-NU-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MI-NU-TE/index.md>) (minūt)
- [MI+\*301](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MI~2B*301/index.md>) (minā)
- [PA₃](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA~E2~82~83/index.md>) (bi=)
- [PA₃-E](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA~E2~82~83-E/index.md>) (bē)
- [\*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)
- [DA-DU-MI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-MI-NE/index.md>) (dādu-Mīnō)
- [DA-MI-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-MI-NU/index.md>) (Ḏā-Mīnu)
- [PI-KU-ZU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-KU-ZU/index.md>) (bi-kuṯ)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2; CAD M/2
- 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
- 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
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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