RA-NA-TU-SU

personal name, 'his shout of joy'; rival two names, RA-NA and TU-SU

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Reading
Rannatušu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*rVnVn- ‘noise’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Arabicrannahrannah ‘a sound, voice, or cry, in joy or sorrow’, pl. rannāt (Lane 1164)
  • Hebrewrinnāhrinnāh ‘ringing cry’, rinnātî, rinnātām; Rinnāh, a man of Judah (1 Chr 4:20; BDB 943)
  • Ugariticr-n/r-n(-n)/ ‘to shout, raise one’s voice’, ảrnn (KTU 1.82:6; DULAT 731)

Attestations1 cited

  1. PK 1RA-NA-TU-SU 1personal name 'his shout of joy', 1; rival two names, RA-NA and TU-SU

Commentary

PK 1 .6 RA-NA-TU-SU 1, one word, written with its 1 and the next NI over an erasure, in a roster of names each counted 1 (GORILA I 281). rannat-u-šu: the verbal noun rannat- of √r-n-n ‘cry out’, nominative -u, and -šu ‘his’; the geminate is unwritten. Arabic rannah keeps the a of RA; Hebrew rinnāh takes the same suffixes (rinnātî ‘my cry’, Ps 17:1). Neo-Babylonian Bānītušu, ᵐDU₃-tu₂-šu₂ (GCCI 1, 63; YOS 17, 316), joins a -t- noun to -šu the same way. -šu keeps PS *-su ‘his’, which the change to *-hu reached in most but not all West Semitic languages (Huehnergard 2019, 51, 72–73 n. 5). Rivals: two names, RA-NA and TU-SU (TU-SU stands alone on .6–7); Egyptian rnn ‘jubeln’ (DULAT 731), which leaves -TU-SU unread. One witness. See A-RE-PI-RE-NA.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon