# RI-MI-SI (Rimši)

> Rimši; a personnel group named with the Amorite element rimši (Ugaritic DN rmš)

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

- Reading: Rimši
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*rmś](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/4295/index.md>) 'to creep, crawl, swarm' 1, 'creeping things' 2, 'to set oneself in motion' 3
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RI (ri) · MI (mi) · SI (si)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Amorite: Gelb AS 21 root RMS (unglossed): Rimši-ʾIl RI-IM-ŠI-DINGIR (no. 5285) and Rimši-ʾIli RI-IM-ŠI-I₃-LI₂ (no. 5286), Mari; feminine ʾAnnu-rimši AN-NU-RI-IM-ŠI (no. 831, Mari) and Kakka-rimši KA-AK-KA-RI-IM-ŠI (no. 3912); same root Ramaši RA-MA-SI (FN), Ramišum RA-MI-SUM

## Attestations

- [HT 119](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT119/index.md>): RI-MI-SI 13 — personnel group named with the element rimši (Ugaritic DN rmš)

## Commentary

HT 119 RI-MI-SI 13, a group in a personnel list. /rimši/ matches the Amorite element in Rimši-ʾIl, Rimši-ʾIli, ʾAnnu-rimši, Kakka-rimši (Gelb 1980, nos. 5285–5286, 831, 3912); Gelb leaves RMŠ unglossed, Sanmartín reads rimš 'moving, setting in motion', with Ebla ra-maš (GlOS 2, 167). Ugaritic rmš is a divine name receiving a ram (š l rmš) in KTU 1.46:13, 1.109:7, 1.130:21 (DULAT 730). One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [RI-MI-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/RI-MI-SI/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; GlOS 2; DULAT
- 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
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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