# TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU (tan-raṣē-u-tī-n(u))

> may you (f.) be favorable toward us (N-stem of √r-ṣ-y + indicative -u + analogical 2fs subject clitic -tī + 1cp object -n)

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

- Reading: tan-raṣē-u-tī-n(u)
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*rṣ̂w](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3176/index.md>) 'to be glad, satisfied; to accept with pleasure (a sacrifice)'
- Kind: Verbal
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TA (ta) · NA (na) · RA (ra) · TE (te) · U (u) · TI (ti) · NU (nu)
- Rank: #80 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: רָצָה *rāṣāh* — rāṣāh (רָצָה) 'to be pleased with, accept favorably' (Lev 1:4, Ps 19:15, Mal 1:8, Ezek 20:40–41, 43:27); rāṣōn (רָצוֹן) 'favor, acceptance, goodwill' (Prov 11:1, Ps 5:13); √r-ṣ-y 'to accept, be pleased'
- Akkadian: *râṣu* — râṣu 'to be content, acquiesce' (CAD R 186)
- Arabic: رضي *raḍiya* — raḍiya (رضي) 'to be pleased, satisfied, accept'; riḍā 'acceptance, divine pleasure'

## Attestations

- [IO Za 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/IOZa2/index.md>): SI-RU-TE TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU I-DA-\[?\] — May you be favorable toward us

## Commentary

IO Za 2 .2, in the frame TA-NA-[X]-U-TI-NU shared with IO Za 6 (X = I-*301) and IO Za 11 (]U-TI-NU). TA- is the 2fs prefix, -NA- the N-stem n- unassimilated before r, where Hebrew assimilates it, תֵּרָצֶה tērāṣeh 'it shall be accepted' (Lipiński 1997, §41.16), RA-TE √r-ṣ-y 'be acceptable', the Hebrew Niphal of Lev 1:4, U the indicative -u of yaqtulu before the subject pronoun (Ugaritic ʾargmk /ʾargumu-kī/, KTU 1.3 III 21), with the modal 'may' sense (Huehnergard 2012, 55–56), and -u 'remains attached directly to the verbal base, and pronominal object suffixes follow it' (Bjøru and Pat-El 2021, 56). TI is the archaic 2fs nominative subject clitic, the clitics drawn from the nominative pronouns and usable on other bases (Pat-El 2025, 330, 332), extended to a finite host, NU the 1cp object 'us' (PS *-na, Ugaritic -n/-nā, Eblaite accusative -nu in i-ne-sa-nu, ARET XVI 16, Kogan and Krebernik 2021, 754). Cf. Enūma eliš I 119–120 ul taremmināsi 'you (f.) do not love us', Josh 2:18 hôradtēnû and Ugaritic tšqy-n (KTU 1.19 IV 53). Byblos marks person twice in the same way, ta-šap-pár-ta 'why were you sent?' (EA 102:10), and PS Za 2 writes TA-NA-I-*301-TI (di Mino, Ya Diktu 14). TE writes *ṣ́ after r with the T-series, as A-RA-TU ʾarṣ́- (PS *ʾar(V)ṣ̂-) does. One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Kogan, Leonid; Krebernik, Manfred (2021), Eblaite. In J.-P. Vita (ed.), History of the Akkadian Language, Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/152), ch. 12, pp. 664–989
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Pat-El, Na’ama (2025), The Semitic “Perfect” and the Problem of the Third Person Zero Morpheme. Journal of the American Oriental Society,145/2,327–347
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- Lipiński, Edward (1997), Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Peeters (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 80)
- Bjøru, Øyvind; Pat-El, Na'ama (2021), The Indicative Markers in West Semitic and Their Relationship to the East Semitic Subordinative. In Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee and Na'ama Pat-El (eds.), Bēl Lišāni: Current Research in Akkadian Linguistics, pp. 41–69. Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations 8. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press / Eisenbrauns. DOI 10.1515/9781646021598-004
- EbDA: Ebla Digital Archives (CNR), Ebla Digital Archives (EbDA): ARET, ARES and MEE text editions. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
- CAD R: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner and Martha T. Roth, eds.) (1999), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 14, R. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.

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