# RE (le-)

> to, for, as (preposition)

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

- Reading: le-
- Confidence: Confirmed. The function is fixed inside the corpus (position, arithmetic, commodity signs). The etymology may still be a proposal.
- Root: [\*lV--](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0116/index.md>) 'to'
- Kind: Particle
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RE (re)
- Rank: #11 of the top 100
- First proposed by Cyrus H. Gordon, Evidence for the Minoan Language (1966), §161

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎍 *l* — l 'to, for' (DULAT 471)
- Hebrew: לְ *lə-* — lə- (לְ) 'to, for' (BDB 510)
- Arabic: لِ *li-* — li- (لِ) 'for, to, belonging to'
- Phoenician: 𐤋 *l* — l 'to, for' (Krahmalkov)

## Attestations

- [ARKH 4a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH4a/index.md>): \]TA RE 5
- [ARKH 4b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH4b/index.md>): RE 10
- [GO 2v](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/GO2v/index.md>): 1 ¹⁄₈ DA RE 1 SE-SI \[…\] \[…\]
- [HT 109](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT109/index.md>): RE 4
- [HT 32](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT32/index.md>): RE 104
- [HT 41a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT41a/index.md>): RE \*304 10
- [HT 66](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT66/index.md>): RE 1
- [KH 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH6/index.md>): RE \*334 1 — broken word, ]-TE-NU-RE[
- [KH 8](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH8/index.md>): RE
- [PKZbX](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZbX/index.md>): RE ¹⁄₃ — to, for (preposition)

## Commentary

RE writes le-, the preposition 'to, for', whose vowel goes with Arabic li (Gordon 1966 §161; Heb. lə-, HALOT 507). On administrative tablets it introduces quantities: HT 32 OLE+NE · RE 104, 'libation oil for 104'; HT 66 TA-MI · RE 1; PK Zb X RE ⅓. On HT 27a RE 20, and on HT 27b RE 14, RE 70[ and RE ]40, each after SA n (SA 1, SA 4, SA 4), RE n is a counted entry, with no reading there.

## References

- Reading: Gordon 1966; HALOT
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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
- 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

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