# SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA (Sukritēya)

> of Sukrita (Sybrita): origin label on a jar

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

- Reading: Sukritēya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*sagar-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0391/index.md>) 'close' 1, 'to hand over' 2
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SU (su) · KI (ki) · RI (ri) · TE (te) · I (i) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *suGir* — suGir 'bolt', the base of the town name (GlOS 2, 190)
- Linear B: su-ki-ri-ta-jo, the ethnic of the town, KN C(2) 911

## Attestations

- [HT Zb 158b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTZb158b/index.md>): SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA — of Sukrita (Sybrita) — origin adjective from the toponym SU-KI-RI-TA (LB su-ki-ri-ta, Greek Σύβριτα)

## Commentary

HT Zb 158b, a jar: the only word on side b (GORILA IV 65); side a reads [·]-TU-SE-SU-KI. Gentilic on SU-KI-RI-TA (PH Wa 32), the vowel of KI dead before RI; Linear B has the ethnic su-ki-ri-ta-jo (KN C 911). Davis (Aura Suppl. 13, 46) pairs the two forms as alternating endings. -I-JA is the Semitic nisba *-iy- (fem. *-iyya), the gentilic suffix of Ugaritic ugrty /ʾugaritiyyu/ 'man of Ugarit' (Fischer 2002, §116). Rival: Anatolian -iya-. -TE-I-JA has no other Linear A witness; SE-TO-I-JA (PR Za 1) shares -I-JA. One document.

## Same root

- [SU-KI-RI-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SU-KI-RI-TA/index.md>) (Sukrita)

## In the onomasticon

- [SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA/index.md>): Place or gentilic, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Fischer 2002
- Fischer, Wolfdietrich (2002), A Grammar of Classical Arabic. Yale Language Series,Yale University Press
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- 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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