# TI (tiʾin)

> figs (logographic abbreviation of TI-NI)

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

- Reading: tiʾin
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*tiʾin-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2324/index.md>) 'fig-tree'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: תְּאֵנָה *tᵉʔēnā* — tᵉʔēnā (תְּאֵנָה) "fig tree"
- Ugaritic: tʾn
- Akkadian: tittu / tiʔittu / tīnātu
- Arabic: tīn (تين)
- Phoenician: unvocalized

## Attestations

- [HT 119](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT119/index.md>): TI 7 — personnel-category logogram; not figs here
- [HT 154.](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT154~2E/index.md>): TI
- [MA 1c](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/MA1c/index.md>): TI
- [MA 2b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/MA2b/index.md>): TI 1
- [PH 16b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH16b/index.md>): TI
- [PH 30](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH30/index.md>): TI ¹⁄₄
- [PK 3](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PK3/index.md>): TI 2
- [PYR Wc 4](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PYRWc4/index.md>): TI I-SI
- [ZA 12a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA12a/index.md>): TI 13
- [ZA 12b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA12b/index.md>): TI 13

## Commentary

A sign of two functions: the syllabogram ti (AB 04), and, standalone with quantities, the fig logogram, the abbreviation of TI-NI. Eleven standalone occurrences at six sites, most followed by numerals, with quantities from ¼ to 100. Pan-Semitic *tiʔin- 'fig', one of the seven species of Deut 8:8. Weak points: NI is the confirmed fig logogram, and TI never shares a tablet with it: TI stands alone at Malia, Palaikastro and Pyrgos, NI alone at Khania and Knossos; on HT 119, TI 7 stands among names inside a personnel total (KU-RO 160 with VIR 68). See TE-*301.

## Same root

- [TE-\*301](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TE-*301/index.md>) (Tēnā)

## References

- Reading: di Mino

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