# TI-NU-JA (Ṯinuya)

> personal name, 'Second(-born)'; rival Dīnuya

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

- Reading: Ṯinuya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṯVny-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2553/index.md>) 'two'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TI (ti) · NU (nu) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎐 *ṯn* — ṯn 'two'
- Ancient North Arabian: Sabaic PN tny, Safaitic tnyt (Harding 1971, 148–49)
- Amorite: ŠANIJ-UM, SA-NI-U₂-UM; ŠANIJ-I, SA-NI-I (Gelb 1980 nos. 5495, 5494); Dīnuya, √d-y-n 'judge' (PS *dyn-), rival
- Eblaite: s^a-ni, ṯānī 'second (child)', PN (Pagan 1998, row 4337)

## Attestations

- [HT 115b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115b/index.md>): TI-NU-JA NU-WI GRA ¹⁄₂ — personal name, 'Second(-born)'; rival Dīnuya

## Commentary

HT 115b .2 TI-NU-JA · NU-WI · GRA ½, the frame of side a's *47-NU-RA-JA · I · GRA+BOSm / NU-WI, so a person (GORILA I 191). ṯinu-ya, Ugaritic ṯn 'two, twofold' (DULAT 905) + hypocoristic -ya as in *306-TU-JA on the same tablet; Ugarit has the personal name ṯny (DULAT 911). TI writes ṯ, as in TI-DA-TA ṯādīta 'sixth' and TU-PI-TA ṯāpiṭu. Rival: Dīnuya, √d-y-n 'judge', which needs TI = d, while the judge words here are written DI (DI-NA). One witness.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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