# TA-NA-SU-TE-KE (tanašutē-kī)

> may \[it\] be drunk for you (f.)—N-stem 3fs imperfective of √š-t-y 'to drink' + 2fs pronominal suffix -kī

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

- Reading: tanašutē-kī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*šVtVy-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1384/index.md>) 'drink'
- Kind: Verbal
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TA (ta) · NA (na) · SU (su) · TE (te) · KE (ke)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: שָׁתָה *šātâ* — šātâ (שָׁתָה) 'to drink'
- Akkadian: *šatû* — šatû 'to drink'
- Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎚𐎊 *šty* — šty 'to drink'; mštt 'drink, libation' (DULAT 588)
- Emar: *ta-ši-ti tašitu* — ta-ši-ti tašitu 'goblet' (GlOS 2, 264)

## Attestations

- [PR Za 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PRZa1/index.md>): TA-NA-SU-TE-KE — may [it] be drunk for you (f.)

## Commentary

PR Za 1, a Prassa stone vessel (LM IA), position 1, the verb slot of the formula, before SE-TO-I-JA, a place name or epithet, and A-SA-SA-RA-ME, the formula word, with RA drawn reversed. tanašutē-kī 'may [the offering] be drunk for you (f.)', the vessel addressing the Goddess: TA-NA the prefix ta- with the N-stem na-, here 3fs with the offering as subject, where TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU (√r-ṣ-y) has the same ta- as 2fs, the t- prefix serving both persons; SU and TE the first two root consonants of √š-t-y, š (the sibilants merged) and t; KE the 2fs suffix -kī; the weak third radical y unwritten, as in III-weak verbs. Both verbs have the N-stem shape with the root after TA-NA. One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- 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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