RI-SU-MA

head, chief quality; first quality

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Reading
rīšum(a)
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*raʾ(i)š- ‘head’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • EblaiteSAG.KI.TÚM = rí-še₆ KI.TÚM, rīš ‘head, chief’ (GlOS 2, 149)
  • Ugariticrỉšrỉš ‘head, chief, top, first(fruit)’ (GlOS 2, 149)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 81RI-SU-MA 𐝋
  2. HT 115aRI-SU-MAhead, first quality

Commentary

HT 115a, a GRA+BOSm list: RI-SU-MA, then SU 2 ⅕, after KA-PO-RU 1; HT 81: RI-SU-MA with the fraction L4, after A-SE · MI+JA+RU ≈ ⅙. rīšum ‘head, first quality’, with the nominative mimation -um: Ug. rỉš /raʾšu/ ‘head’ (Huehnergard 2012, 41–42), Heb. rōʾš, Akk. rēšum. Cf. RE-SU (HT 37) and A-RI-SU (HT 118, in a list summing to KU-RO 30). Two attestations. See RO.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon