# TE-\*301 (Tēnā)

> Fig (personal name); a recipient in allocation lists

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

- Reading: Tēnā
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*tiʾin-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2324/index.md>) 'fig-tree'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TE (te) · \*301
- Rank: #98 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: תְּאֵנָה *təʾēnāh* — təʾēnāh (תְּאֵנָה) 'fig tree' (HALOT 1675); Mishnaic tīnā
- Aramaic: *tyn* — tyn 'fig'
- Akkadian: tittu (tiʾittu), pl. tinātu 'fig'; Old Assyrian 'Month of Figs' (CAD T 435)
- Arabic: *tīn* — tīn 'fig'
- Ugarit: PÈŠ = ti-[n]a-tu₄ tiʔnat 'fig' (GlOS 2, 290)
- Eblaite: GIŠ.PÈŠ = ti-ì-tum 'fig (tree)' (GlOS 2, 290)

## Attestations

- [HT 8a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT8a/index.md>): TE-\*301 2 — 'Fig', personal name; recipient of KI-oil 2
- [HT 98a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT98a/index.md>): TE-\*301 ³⁄₄ — 'Fig', personal name; recipient of ¾

## Commentary

A recipient on both tablets: HT 8a TE-*301 2 in the OLE+KI list between PA 3½ and QA-*310-I ¾ (QA-*310-I receives again on HT 8b); HT 98a TE-*301 ¾ between DI-RE-DI-NA and RO-KE. Tēnā 'Fig': TE-*301 writes the shape of Hebrew təʾēnāh 'fig' with the ʾ lost, as in Judaic Aramaic tēnəṯā (HALOT 1675). A fruit-tree name as a personal name, as Hebrew Tamar 'date palm' (HALOT 1756) and Ugaritic tmr (DULAT 859). Weak point: *301 = na is a proposed value, and no other fig-name is attested. Two attestations. See TI.

## Same root

- [TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI/index.md>) (tiʾin)

## In the onomasticon

- [TE-\*301](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TE-*301/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## 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
- CAD T: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (2006), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 18, T. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- 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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