# RA-NA-TU-SU (Rannatušu)

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

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

- Reading: Rannatušu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*rVnVn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0351/index.md>) 'noise'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RA (ra) · NA (na) · TU (tu) · SU (su)

## Compared forms

- Arabic: *rannah* — rannah 'a sound, voice, or cry, in joy or sorrow', pl. rannāt (Lane 1164)
- Hebrew: *rinnāh* — rinnāh 'ringing cry', rinnātî, rinnātām; Rinnāh, a man of Judah (1 Chr 4:20; BDB 943)
- Ugaritic: *r-n* — /r-n(-n)/ 'to shout, raise one's voice', ảrnn (KTU 1.82:6; DULAT 731)

## Attestations

- [PK 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PK1/index.md>): RA-NA-TU-SU 1 — personal 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.

## In the onomasticon

- [RA-NA-TU-SU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/RA-NA-TU-SU/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Lane; BDB; DULAT; Huehnergard 2019
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Huehnergard, John (2019), Proto-Semitic. In Huehnergard, John; Pat-El, Na‘ama (eds.), The Semitic Languages,Routledge,49–79
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company
- 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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