# RI-TA-JE (Lītāy)

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

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

- Reading: Lītāy
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*lVHVt-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1228/index.md>) 'strength' + [\*lVʾVy-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0134/index.md>) 'power'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RI (ri) · TA (ta) · JE (je)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *lītu* — lītu 'victory, victorious might, power', in personal names: ᵈŠul-gi-li-ti, ᵈŠamaš-li-tum, Bēl-li-tim-Marduk (CAD L 222–223)
- Amorite: *liʔy* — liʔy '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)
- Ugaritic: *lả* — lả 'power, strength, vigour' (DULAT 482)

## Attestations

- [KH 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH6/index.md>): RI-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.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD L; GlOS 2; Gelb 1980
- 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
- CAD L: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1973), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 9, L. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- 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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