RI-TA-JE

(My) Might (personal name; lītu 'might, victory' + hypocoristic -āy); rival Rašiyya

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Reading
Lītāy
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*lVHVt- ‘strength’ + *lVʾVy- ‘power’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Akkadianlītulītu ‘victory, victorious might, power’, in personal names: ᵈŠul-gi-li-ti, ᵈŠamaš-li-tum, Bēl-li-tim-Marduk (CAD L 222–223)
  • Amoriteliʔyliʔy ‘power’: li-i-um, li-ú-um, li-i-ᵈda-gan; laʔiy ‘powerful’, with -aya at Ugarit: la-i-ia, la-i-ia-ya (GlOS 2, 6); rival RAŠIJ-JA, RA-ŠI-A, √r-š-j ‘acquire’ (Gelb 1980, no. 5264)
  • Ugariticlảlả ‘power, strength, vigour’ (DULAT 482)

Attestations1 cited

  1. KH 6RI-TA-JE CYP+D(My) Might (personal name); cyperus ½[; rival Rašiyya

Commentary

KH 6 .4 ]CYP+[ ] J · RI-TA-JE CYP+D[, intact and undotted, a recipient in a list of CYP+D J allotments (GORILA III 26–27). RI li, the ʾ of liʾt- unwritten, TA t; JE the hypocoristic -āy, as in *306-TA-JE ʿaṭāye and the Ugarit names la-i-ia-ya (GlOS 2, 6). lītu ‘might’ names the god’s victory in ᵈŠamaš-lītum and ᵈŠulgi-līti (CAD L 223). Rival: Amorite Rašiyya, RA-ŠI-A (Gelb 1980, no. 5264), √r-ṯ-y ‘acquire’ with TA for ṯ, against the vowels of RI-TA. RI the i of Amorite liʔy ‘power’, li-i-um, li-i-ᵈda-gan (GlOS 2, 6), beside the verbal laʾijum (Gelb 1980, 23). One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon