TE-RI

attendant, courtier (recipient)

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Reading
tēri
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*tiHir- ‘courtier’
Kind
Personnel
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Akkadiantīru A (tēru), te-i-rum ‘courtier, attendant (a member of the palace or temple staff)’ (CAD T 429)

Attestations3 cited

  1. ARKH 6TE-RI
  2. HT 91TE-RI OLE+MI ≈ ¹⁄₆attendant, courtier (second recipient); Akk. tīru (tēru), CAD T 429
  3. PH(?) 31bTE-RI *21M[

Commentary

HT 91 TE-RI · OLE+MI ≈¹⁄₆, E 3, a second allocation after I-KA’s closes with E 5; ARKH 6 DA-NA-TU · KU / TE-RI; PH(?) 31b TE-RI *21M[ 1, among names that each receive a ram. tēri ‘attendant, courtier’, Akk. tīru A (tēru), ‘a member of the palace or temple staff’, written te-i-rum (CAD T 429): an Old Akkadian survey totals ‘27 court attendants’, and the tīr bīti draws rations (CT 45 85:6, OB). TE writes the ē of tēru. Weak point: tīru is Akkadian, with no West Semitic cognate. Three attestations.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon