# TE-JA-RE (Teyar)

> personal name, 'Merciful (god)'; rival tayyār 'trader'

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

- Reading: Teyar
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*tVwVr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1420/index.md>) 'turn' 1, 'go about, travel through; spy out' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TE (te) · JA (ja) · RE (re)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *tajjāru* — tajjāru 'merciful; turning back', from târu, in names: aA Aššur-tayyār, aB Ilum-, Marduk-, Sîn-tayyār, Tayyār-ilu, hypocoristic Tayyarītum (CAD T 60; AHw 1303–1304)
- Ugarit: ti-ya-ru₃ Tiyaru, a man's name (RS 14.0016 r 3, ORACC aemw/ugarit)
- Hebrew: *hattārîm* — hattārîm 'traders', beside rōkəlîm (1 Kgs 10:15 = 2 Chr 9:14; HALOT 1708)
- Ugaritic: *t-r* — t-r 'scour, travel through' (DULAT 862f.; GlOS 2, 304)

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>): TE-JA-RE 1 — personal name, 'Merciful (god)' (Ugarit Tiyaru); rival tayyār 'trader'

## Commentary

HT 117a (Haghia Triada, Casa Room 9, LM IB): one of ten entries counted 1 each, KU-RO 10, under the heading MA-KA-RI-TE 'merchants', alongside KU-RA-MU Kurmu 'Vineyard', KU-PA₃-NU Kubānu and NA-DA-RE Nadr 'Vow'. Ugarit has the man's name Tiyaru, ti-ya-ru₃ (RS 14.0016 r 3); Linear B has the man's name te-ja-ro (KN V 479). Akkadian names give the sense: tajjāru 'merciful (god)', from târu 'turn, relent', in Aššur-tayyār, Sîn-tayyār and Tayyār-ilu (AHw 1304; CAD T 60), of which Teyar is the short form; tajārtu is the god's 'forgiveness', lit. 'return' (CAD T 59). Rival: tayyār 'trader', √t-w-r 'travel about': Heb. hattārîm 'traders' (1 Kgs 10:15; HALOT 1708), Ug. /t-r/ 'to scour, travel through' (DULAT 862–863), on the qattāl pattern of Heb. ṣayyād 'hunter' (√ṣ-w-d). One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; AHw 1304; CAD T 59–60; ORACC aemw/ugarit; HALOT 1708; DULAT 862
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- AHw: von Soden, Wolfram (1981), Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, Bd. I–III. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden
- 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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