# RU-ZU-NA (rāzin(a))

> dignitary, prince (title of a recipient); rival a personal name

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

- Reading: rāzin(a)
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*rVzan-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S1/index.md>) 'ruler, prince, dignitary' 1, 'to rule, govern' 2
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RU (ru) · ZU (zu) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: rōzēn, pl. rōzĕnîm 'dignitary, prince' (HALOT 1210)
- Arabic: *razuna* — razuna 'was weighty; grave, sedate' (Lane 1079)
- Amorite: razinum (Gelb 1980, glossary); RAZIN-IM, RA-ZI-NI-IM (no. 5268)

## Attestations

- [HT 11b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT11b/index.md>): RU-ZU-NA KA 30 — dignitary, prince (title); rival a personal name

## Commentary

HT 11b .4 RU-ZU-NA KA 30, whole and undotted (GORILA I 23), the fourth of five KA entries that KU-RO 180 totals, before SA-QE-RI · KA 30. Heb. rōzēn 'dignitary, prince' (HALOT 1210); Ar. razuna 'was weighty, grave' (Lane 1079) fixes the PS *z, which ZU writes beside ṯ. Woudhuizen (2016, 223–224) reads the same word. Rival: a personal name. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [RU-ZU-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/RU-ZU-NA/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: Woudhuizen 2016, 223–224; Gelb 1980; di Mino
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- Woudhuizen, Fred C. (2016), Documents in Minoan, Luwian, Semitic, and Pelasgian. Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society, Amsterdam; Publications of the Henri Frankfort Foundation 14
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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