# PI-RU-E-JU (Pirʾu-ʾēlu)

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

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

- Reading: Pirʾu-ʾēlu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*pirɣ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3194/index.md>) 'shoot' + [\*ʾil-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2719/index.md>) 'god, deity; El (supreme god)'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PI (pi) · RU (ru) · E (e) · JU (ju)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: pirʾu, 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)
- Hebrew: *pərî* — pərî 'fruit' (PS *pir-), rival

## Attestations

- [PH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH2/index.md>): PI-RU-E-JU 60 — personal 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.

## Same root

- [DI-NA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NA-RO/index.md>) (Dānīlo / Dānīlu)
- [I-RA₂](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-RA~E2~82~82/index.md>) (ʾilā(t))
- [SA-RE-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-RE-JU/index.md>) (Šarr-ēlu)

## In the onomasticon

- [PI-RU-E-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/PI-RU-E-JU/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD P
- CAD P: Oriental Institute (Martha T. Roth, ed.) (2005), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 12, P. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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