# TU-MI-TI-ZA-SE (tumtiṣa-se)

> for the fighting (terminative -SE), a levy of 45; rival tmtt 'team, crew'

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

- Reading: tumtiṣa-se
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*mḫṣ](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2620/index.md>) 'beat'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TU (tu) · MI (mi) · TI (ti) · ZA (za) · SE (se)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎎𐎚𐎃𐎕 *tmtḫṣ* — tmtḫṣ n. m. 'fight' (< m-ḫ-ṣ); tmtt n. f. 'group of men, team, crew', rival (DULAT 859)
- Akkadian: *mitḫuṣu* — mitḫuṣu 'fight, combat, clash of weapons', ana mitḫuṣi 'for battle' (KBo 1 1:41) (CAD M/2 138)

## Attestations

- [ZA 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA14/index.md>): TU-MI-TI-ZA-SE 45 — personal name or gentilic (unread), 45

## Commentary

ZA 14 .3–4 TU-MI-TI-ZA-SE 45[ ], the largest count on a list of personal names, a space lost after the numeral (GORILA III 181). Intact. tumtiṣ-, the t-noun of the Gt of m-ḫ-ṣ with ḫ unwritten and ZA for ṣ, as Ugaritic tmtḫṣ 'fight' (KTU 1.3 II 19; DULAT 859) and Akkadian mitḫuṣu 'fight, combat', in the prose of the Akkadian treaties of Ḫattuša (KBo 1 1:41, KBo 1 2:10) and the Assyrian annals (CAD M/2 138); TU's u is the tu- of the war noun tuqumtu 'battle, war, fight' (CAD T 481); -SE the Zakros terminative, as MI-ZA-SE: 'for the fighting', a levy of 45. ZA belongs to the stem in MI-ZA-SE and DU-RE-ZA-SE, so the -ZA-SE words take -SE alone. Rival: Ugaritic tmtt 'group of men, team, crew' (ảlpm tmtt 'bullocks (and) personnel', KTU 4.231:9; DULAT 859), which leaves ZA unread. One witness.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; CAD M/2; CAD T
- 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
- CAD M/2: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1977), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 10, M, part 2. The Oriental Institute; J. J. Augustin
- 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
- 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
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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