# TE-RI (tēri)

> attendant, courtier (recipient)

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

- Reading: tēri
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*tiHir-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1308/index.md>) 'courtier'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TE (te) · RI (ri)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: tīru A (tēru), te-i-rum 'courtier, attendant (a member of the palace or temple staff)' (CAD T 429)

## Attestations

- [ARKH 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH6/index.md>): TE-RI
- [HT 91](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT91/index.md>): TE-RI OLE+MI ≈ ¹⁄₆ — attendant, courtier (second recipient); Akk. tīru (tēru), CAD T 429
- [PH(?) 31b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH(~3F)31b/index.md>): TE-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.

## In the onomasticon

- [TE-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TE-RI/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD T
- 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

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