# SA-\*301-RI (šannāri)

> Cat (personal name)

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

- Reading: šannāri
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*šVn(n)ār- ~ \*šurān-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2190/index.md>) 'cat'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SA (sa) · \*301 · RI (ri)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *šurānu* — šurānu 'cat'; Šu-ra-nu, a personal name (CAD Š/3 339)
- Arabic: *sinnawr* — sinnawr 'cat' (Lane 1445)
- Ugaritic: snr, syll. si-na-ri, si-na-ru, a personal name (Kinlaw 1967, 101), read 'cat' (GlOS 2, 201)
- Amorite: Šurān-at-um, a woman's name (Gelb 1980, no. 5952)

## Attestations

- [ZA 11b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA11b/index.md>): SA-\*301-RI GRA+PA 1

## Commentary

ZA 11b .1–.2 E-TO-RI-[?] *516 / SA-*301-RI · GRA+PA 1 / I OLIV 1. šannāri 'Cat', with *301 = na: SA-NA-RI, s-n-r, as Arabic sinnawr 'the cat' (Lane 1445), where Akk. šurānu has r before n; the geminate nn unwritten. Ugarit has the name: si-na-ri, sí-na-a-r[i] (Kinlaw 1967, 101), read 'cat' (GlOS 2, 201). Rival: a name from a town, as DULAT derives Ugaritic snr from Sināru (DULAT 753). Weak point: *301 = na is a proposed value. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [SA-\*301-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SA-*301-RI/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Kinlaw 1967; GlOS 2; Gelb 1980; DULAT
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD Š/3: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1992), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 3. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)
- 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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