# TE (terûmā) > contribution, offering (terûmā), a transaction marker A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: terûmā - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*rVyVm-]() 'be high, long' - Kind: Administrative - Language: Semitic - Signs: TE (te) ## Compared forms - Hebrew: תְּרוּמָה *terûmā* — terûmā (תְּרוּמָה) 'contribution, sacred donation' (Exod 25:2), from √r-w-m - Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎗𐎎𐎚 *trmt* — trmt 'offering' (KTU 1.43:3; 1.6 VI:44; Copenhagen Ugaritic Corpus lexicon) - Akkadian: *cf. tāmartu* — cf. tāmartu 'gift, present (to temple or king)' ## Attestations - [HT 6a](): DA-TA-RA TE NI 15 - [HT 9a](): SA-RO TE VIN — contribution (abbreviation) - [HT 13](): KA-U-DE-TA VIN TE — contribution (transaction sign) - [HT 14](): PU-VIN TE GRA 30 — contribution (transaction or category marker) - [HT 17](): RA-\*164-TI TE VIN 38 — offering, contribution - [HT 19](): RA-\*164-TI TE VIN 30 — offering, contribution - [HT 21](): PI-TA-KA-SE TE GRA 161 - [HT 40](): NU-DU-\*331 TE GRA 207 - [HT 42+59](): \]-TA SI+SE TE OLE+KI 8 — offering, contribution - [HT 51a](): NI TE — transaction sign - [HT 52a](): SA-MA TE - [HT 62+73](): \[?\]-\[?\]-SA-RA TE VIN\[ - [HT 63](): \*305 TE 1 - [HT 67](): NI TE 400 — sacred contribution, heave-offering - [HT 70](): \]NI TE 30\[ — transaction or category sign; perhaps contribution - [HT 92](): TE — contribution / transaction marker - [HT 96a](): \]-KU-MA-RO TE NI 20 — transaction or category sign; perhaps contribution - [HT 107](): TE 86 - [HT 116a](): U-TA-RO TE - [HT 133](): A-DU TE GRA+DA 55 — contribution, sacred offering - [KN 28b](): TE 𐝊𐝫 - [KN 32b](): TE - [PH 27](): TE - [SAM Wa 1](): JA-SA SA-RA TE 10 ¹⁄₁₆ — contribution, sacred offering - [ZA 29](): TE - [HT Wa 1122](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1123](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1124](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1125](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1126](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1127](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1128](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1129](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1130](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1131](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1132](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1133](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1134](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1135](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1136](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1137](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1138](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1139](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1140](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1141](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1142](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1143](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1144](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1145](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [HT Wa 1146](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [AN Zb 1](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [KN Wc 48](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [PH 12c](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) - [PH Wb 36](): TE — contribution, sacred offering (logographic TE < √r-w-m) ## Commentary TE stands with VIN in the heading of every HT wine tablet and with the large barley entries of HT 40, 52 and 133 (Montecchi 2010, 17, 19). It marks commodity-number entries on 54 documents, and 25 HT nodules carry it alone (HT Wa 1122–1146). terûmā 'contribution, offering' (HALOT 1788), Ug. trmt 'offering', trmt lbš w ktn 'an offering: a garment and a tunic' (KTU 1.43:3; DULAT 866); TE abbreviates it, and VIN+TE is a wine-offering. Weak point: KU stands beside the full KU-RO kull, where no TE-RU-MA stands beside TE. See RU-MA. ## Same root - [RU-MA-TA]() (rūmatā) - [JA-RU-MA-NE]() (Yarīmān) - [JA-RE-MI]() (Yarīm) - [RU-MA]() (Rūma) ## References - Reading: di Mino; Montecchi 2010; HALOT; DULAT - KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2 - 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 - Montecchi, Barbara (2010), A Classification Proposal of Linear A Tablets from Haghia Triada in Classes and Series. Kadmos,49,Walter de Gruyter,11–38 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TE/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.