# PI-TE-RI (piṭrī)

> Piṭrī, personal name, 'my release'

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

- Reading: piṭrī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*paṭār-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0289/index.md>) 'loose'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PI (pi) · TE (te) · RI (ri)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *piṭru* — pṭry, Semitic personal name (DULAT 677); /piṭru/ 'loosening, release', pí-iṭ-r[ù] (GlOS 2, 142)
- Amorite: *PTR* — PTR 'solve, redeem'; Annu-puṭri, Ištar-puṭri; Paṭriya (Gelb 1980, no. 1056)
- Akkadian: *paṭāru* — paṭāru 'to release, loosen' (CAD P 297)
- Hebrew: פָּטַר *pāṭar* — פָּטַר pāṭar 'to open, release'

## Attestations

- [PK Za 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa11/index.md>): \[?\]-RE PI-TE-RI A-KO-A-NE A — Pitrī/Puṭrī (personal name)

## Commentary

PK Za 11, once: PI-TE-RI A-KO-A-NE, in the subject or dedicant slot (Davis 2013, 42–43; Thomas 2020, 8–10). Piṭrī 'my release', a personal name in apposition to A-KO-A-NE 'the priest', on the qitl base of Ugaritic /piṭru/ 'loosening, release' (GlOS 2, 142): Ugaritic PN pṭry (DULAT 677), Amorite PTR 'solve, redeem' in Annu-puṭri and Ištar-puṭri (Gelb 1980, 339; Nakata 1995, 244). Rivals: the common noun piṭrī 'my release'; a 2fs imperative 'release!'; the goddess Pidray (pdry, syllabic pi-id-ra-yu), with TE writing d; Gordon's pi-te za 'this engraved monument' (1966, §124), Phoenician ptḥ 'inscription' with z 'this' after it, as pthy z (KAI 10.3–5, 14), which reads the third sign, a loop on a long stroke, as ZA where GORILA dots RI, with no divider before it.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Davis 2013; Thomas 2020; GlOS 2; DULAT; Gelb 1980; Nakata 1995; Gordon 1966
- KAI: Donner, Herbert; Röllig, Wolfgang (2002), Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften. Band 1. Harrassowitz
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- Thomas, Rose (2020), Some Reflections on Morphology in the Language of the Linear A Libation Formula. Kadmos,59,1–23
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Nakata, Ichiro (1995), A Study of Women's Theophoric Personal Names in the Old Babylonian Texts from Mari. Orient,30–31,234–253
- Davis, Brent (2013), Syntax in Linear A: The Word-Order of the ‘Libation Formula’. Kadmos,52,35–52
- 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 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
- 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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