# SI-RU (ṣillu)

> shade, protection (personal-name element)

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

- Reading: ṣillu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ṯ̣il(l)-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/959/index.md>) 'shadow, shade', 'to shade', 'protection', 'shelter, hut'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · RU (ru)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Amorite: *ṣill-* — ṣill- 'shade, protection' (Huffmon, APNM 257); Ṣillī-Baʿli, Ṣill-Haddu
- Hebrew: צֵל *ṣēl* — ṣēl (צֵל) 'shade' (HALOT 1024); Ṣillāh (HALOT 1025)
- Ugaritic: *ẓillu* — ẓl /ẓillu/ 'shade' (Huehnergard 2012)

## Attestations

- [HT 55a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT55a/index.md>): SI-RU 1 — PN Ṣillu, 'shade, protection'
- [HT 90](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT90/index.md>): SI-RU-MA-RI-TA₂ GRA 1

## Commentary

Name on the HT 55a KI-RO list (SI-RU 1) and first element of HT 90 SI-RU-MA-RI-TA₂ (GORILA I 107, 143). Amorite ṣill- 'shade, protection' (Huffmon 1965, 257): Ṣillī-Baʿli (Huffmon 1965, 58), Ṣill-Haddu, Ṣillān (Gelb 1980, nos. 6482–6483); Heb. ṣēl 'shade' (HALOT 1024), the name Ṣillāh (Gen 4:19; HALOT 1025); Ug. ẓl /ẓillu/ 'shade, shadow' (Huehnergard 2012, 161). ẓill-, written with SI and one RU for the geminate. Two attestations.

## In the onomasticon

- [SI-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SI-RU/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic
- [SI-RU-MA-RI-TA₂](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SI-RU-MA-RI-TA~E2~82~82/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- 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
- 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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