# RI-QE-TI (riqitt-)

> dance (√r-q-d); rival raqqitt- 'female dancer'

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

- Reading: riqitt-
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*raḳad-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/492/index.md>) 'jump' (v.) 1, 'jump, leap' (n.) 2, 'dance' 3
- Kind: Unknown
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RI (ri) · QE (qe) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *raqādu* — raqādu 'to dance' (CAD R 166); raqqidu, f. raqqittu 'dancer' (CAD R 171); riqittu 'dance' (CAD R 367)
- Hebrew: *rqd* — rqd 'to skip about, dance' (HALOT 1288)
- Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎗𐎖𐎄 *mrqd* — mrqd 'castanet' (DULAT 569)

## Attestations

- [PO Zc 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/POZc1/index.md>): RI-QE-TI-A-SA-SA-RA-\[·\] — dance (√r-q-d); rival 'female dancer'

## Commentary

PO Zc 1, inked: RI-QE-TI-A-SA-SA-RA-[·]. riqitt- 'dance': Akk. riqittu 'dance' (ri-qi-it-tum; CAD R 367), from √r-q-d with the d assimilated to t; QE writes qi. The same root gives raqqittu 'female dancer' (raq-qit-tum; CAD R 171, s.v. raqqidu), with RI for ra. The pair matches U-QE-TI · JA-SA-SA-RA-ME on PL Zf 1, a -QE-TI word before the Asasara name. Rival: RI- + QE-TI, the element of HT 7a. Weak point: the cut before A-SA-SA-RA is the reader's, with no divider. One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD R
- 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
- CAD R: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner and Martha T. Roth, eds.) (1999), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 14, R. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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