# RU-MA-TA (rūmatā)

> the Height (toponym of the Ramah/Ramoth type)

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

- Reading: rūmatā
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*rVyVm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1135/index.md>) 'be high, long'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RU (ru) · MA (ma) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *rāmâ* — rāmâ 'height, high place' (HALOT 1240), and the town hārāmâ, Judg 4:5
- Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎎 *rm* — rm 'high, lofty'; 'height' (DULAT 730)
- Amorite: RWM 'be high': rāmum, rāmatum (Gelb AS 21, 29–30)
- Phoenician: 𐤓𐤌 *rm* — rm 'high, lofty' (Krahmalkov 444)

## Attestations

- [HT 29](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT29/index.md>): RU-MA-TA 2\[
- [HT 99b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT99b/index.md>): RU-MA-TA 1
- [ZA 20](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA20/index.md>): RU-MA-TA-SE 3 — (men) of the Height, the -SE form of RU-MA-TA, 3

## Commentary

Bare RU-MA-TA at HT 29 (2) and HT 99b (1, in the SI+SE FIC list); RU-MA-TA-SE on ZA 20 (3) beside DU-RE-ZA-SE: bare at home, -SE abroad. Every attestation carries a quantity: a recipient entry. rūmatā, √r-w-m 'to be high', *rūmat-, a feminine noun of place: Hebrew toponyms רוּמָה Rûmâ (2 Kgs 23:36, the u-vowel form), אֲרוּמָה ʾĂrûmâ (Judg 9:41), רָמַת Rāmat (Josh 13:26), הָרָמָתָה hā-Rāmātâ (1 Sam 1:19), רָאמֹת Rāʾmōt (Josh 20:8); Ug. rm 'to go up'. Final -A is the written vowel. Rival: *rumanth-, the Aegean name of LB o-ru-ma-to *Orumanthos (PY Cn 3.6; ethnic o-ru-ma-si-ja-jo, PY An 519.12; DMic II 50–51), cf. Ἐρύμανθος, a mountain, with the nasal before a stop that Linear A leaves unwritten. See RU-MA.

## Same root

- [TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TE/index.md>) (terûmā)
- [JA-RU-MA-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-RU-MA-NE/index.md>) (Yarīmān)
- [JA-RE-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-RE-MI/index.md>) (Yarīm)
- [RU-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RU-MA/index.md>) (Rūma)

## In the onomasticon

- [RU-MA-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/RU-MA-TA/index.md>): Place, Semitic
- [RU-MA-TA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/RU-MA-TA-SE/index.md>): Gentilic, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- DMic II: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. II (CSIC 1993). 
- 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

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