PI-RU-E-JU

personal name, 'Offspring of El'; rival 'Fruit of El'

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Reading
Pirʾu-ʾēlu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*pirɣ- ‘shoot’ + *ʾil- ‘god, deity’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Akkadianpirʾu, pirḫu ‘1. shoot, 2. offspring’ (CAD P 416); Pir-ḫi-ì-lí-šu ‘Offspring-of-His-God’, wr. Pi-ir-i-ì-lí-šu (CAD P 418)
  • Hebrewpərîpərî ‘fruit’ (PS *pir-), rival

Attestations1 cited

  1. PH 2PI-RU-E-JU 60personal name, 'Offspring of El', 60; rival 'Fruit of El'

Commentary

PH 2 .3 PI-RU-E-JU 60, between RA-O-DI-KI 60 and SE-SA-PA₃ 60, under the heading A-SE-TU-*21F 1 (GORILA I 288–289). pirʾ(u) + ʾēlu: the ʾ of pirʾu goes unwritten, and E-JU writes ʾē-lu as in SA-RE-JU. The name type is Akkadian Pirḫi-ilišu ‘Offspring-of-His-God’, also written Pi-ir-i-ì-lí-šu (CAD P 418). Rival: pir- ‘fruit’, ‘Fruit of El’, a type with no attested name. One witness.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon