# TA-TI (Tati)

> personal name; rival tati 'father' (Luwian tati-)

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

- Reading: Tati
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Anatolian
- Signs: TA (ta) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Luwian: *tati-* — tati- 'father' (Melchert 1993 p. 209; Payne 2014)
- Hittite: *atta-* — atta- 'father' (related but different stem)

## Attestations

- [HT 26a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT26a/index.md>): TA-TI 21
- [HT 97a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT97a/index.md>): TA-TI 2

## Commentary

An entry in two lists of quantities: HT 26a TA-TI 21, before MI-KI-SE-NA 15 and U-NU-*21F 5; HT 97a TA-TI 2, under VIR+KA 82 beside PA-I-TO and KA-NU-TI. Ugarit has the man's name Tati, DUMU-[MEŠ {m}ta]-⸢ti⸣ 'the sons of Tati' (RS 15.0109 + RS 16.0296 o 24; ORACC aemw/ugarit P503325), its first sign restored. Rival: CL Luwian tati- 'father' (Melchert 1993, 209). Two attestations.

## In the onomasticon

- [TA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TA-TI/index.md>): Personal name, Anatolian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; ORACC aemw/ugarit; Melchert 1993
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- Payne, Annick (2014), Hieroglyphic Luwian: An Introduction with Original Texts. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden (Subsidia et Instrumenta Linguarum Orientis 2); ISBN 978-3-447-10216-2
- Melchert, H. Craig (1993), Cuneiform Luvian Lexicon. Lexica Anatolica 2,Chapel Hill, N.C.: the author

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