# RE-RO (lalʾu)

> suckling (lamb or kid)

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

- Reading: lalʾu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*lV(ʾ)lV(ʾ)-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2176/index.md>) 'kid'
- Kind: Animal
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RE (re) · RO (ro)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: llủ, 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)
- Akkadian: lalû B (laliʾu, lalaʾu) 'kid', OB on, in Nuzi and MB lists of sheep and goats (CAD L 51–52)

## Attestations

- [HT Wc 3012](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3012/index.md>): ZU-DI-RA RE-RO — suckling (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.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; CAD L
- 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
- 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 L: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1973), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 9, L. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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