# RE-ZA ((ʾa)raz)

> cedar (wood, resin or oil; commodity); rival Luwian aruza, a measure

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

- Reading: (ʾa)raz
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʾVrz-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2735/index.md>) 'cedar'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RE (re) · ZA (za)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *arz* — arz 'a conifer; cedar' (DULAT 109)
- Eblaite: *ʔarzatum* — ar-za-tum /ʔarzatum/ 'cedar' (VE 471)
- Hebrew: *ʾerez* — ʾerez 'cedar' beside bərôš 'juniper' (1 Kgs 5:22)
- Hieroglyphic Luwian: aruza, a measure equated with Urartian liš, rival

## Attestations

- [HT 13](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT13/index.md>): RE-ZA 5 ¹⁄₂ — cedar, 5½; rival Luwian aruza, a measure
- [HT 88](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT88/index.md>): RE-ZA 6 — cedar (commodity); rival Luwian aruza, a measure
- [KH 86](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH86/index.md>): \]RE-ZA CYP

## Commentary

KH 86 ]RE-ZA CYP, before the aromatic cyperus, broken before, with no numeral of its own; HT 88 RE-ZA 6 before NI KI-KI-NA 7; HT 13 RE-ZA 5½, first entry of the VIN · TE list. ʾarz 'cedar', the aromatic wood, resin and oil, beside cyperus at Khania as cedar beside juniper in Hebrew (1 Kgs 5:22); RE writes the ra of *ʾaraz-, as Ugarit ar-zi-ma |ʔarzīma| < *|ʔarazīma| (GlOS 1, 43), ZA the z. Weak points: initial ʾa- unwritten; KH 20 ]DU-RE-ZA · CYP+E ½ fills the same slot before cyperus, so KH 86 ]RE-ZA can end DU-RE-ZA. Rival: Hieroglyphic Luwian aruza, a measure, attested later.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT
- VE: Pettinato, Giovanni (1982), Testi lessicali bilingui della biblioteca L. 2769. Parte 1: Traslitterazione dei testi e ricostruzione del VE. Materiali epigrafici di Ebla 4,Istituto Universitario Orientale
- 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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