# SI-TU (sūt)

> garment, textile

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

- Reading: sūt
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*sū-t-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/364/index.md>) 'garment' 1, 'covering, veil' 2
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · TU (tu)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: סוּת *sût* — sût (סוּת) 'garment' (Gen 49:11; HALOT 749); šît (שִׁית) 'clothing, garment' (Ps 73:6, Prov 7:10; HALOT 1486)
- Phoenician: 𐤎𐤅𐤕 *swt* — swt 'garment' (DNWSI 781, cited by DULAT 781)
- Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎚 *ṣt* — ṣt 'a garment' (DULAT 781–82)

## Attestations

- [ZA 20](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA20/index.md>): SI-TU 6 — garment, textile, 6
- [HT Wa 1019](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1019/index.md>): SI-TU — garment, textile (√š-y-t)

## Commentary

ZA 20, an allocation list: SI-TU 6, after SI-TE-TU šetātu 'woven' 1; HT Wa 1019, a nodule sealed with the name PA-TA-NE. sūt 'garment': Heb. sût, sûtōh 'his garment' beside lᵉbûšô (Gen 49:11), Ph. swt (HALOT 749).

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; DULAT
- 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
- DNWSI: Hoftijzer, J.; Jongeling, K.; with appendices by R. C. Steiner, A. Mosak Moshavi and B. Porten (1995), Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions. E. J. Brill, Leiden/New York/Köln (Handbuch der Orientalistik I/21), 2 parts

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