RE-RO

suckling (lamb or kid)

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Reading
lalʾu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*lV(ʾ)lV(ʾ)- ‘kid’
Kind
Animal
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Ugariticllủ, llỉ, llả, pl. llỉm ‘suckling (lamb or kid)’, // ỉmr: k llỉ b ṯbrn qnh ‘like a suckling in the opening of his oesophagus’, KTU 1.4 VIII 19 (DULAT 494)
  • Akkadianlalû B (laliʾu, lalaʾu) ‘kid’, OB on, in Nuzi and MB lists of sheep and goats (CAD L 51–52)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT Wc 3012ZU-DI-RA RE-ROsuckling (lamb or kid), the thing received

Commentary

HT Wc 3012, a roundel: ZU-DI-RA on face a, RE-RO on face b, both whole and undotted (GORILA II 75). The thing received, one suckling, against the receiver ṯudira. lalʾu ‘suckling’: Ug. llu ‘suckling (lamb or kid)’ (DULAT 494), Akk. lalû ‘kid’ (CAD L 51). RE writes la as in RE-ZA ʾaraz, RO the -lu as in KU-RO kull, the ʾ unwritten. One attestation. Cf. ZU-DI-RA.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon