# U-RE-WI (ʾūr-lēwī)

> light of the Levite (compound PN)

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

- Reading: ʾūr-lēwī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʾVr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1462/index.md>) 'day' 1, 'light' 2, 'sun' 3, 'fire, heat' 4, 'set fire to' 5 + [\*lVwVy-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/398/index.md>) 'twist, bend' 1, 'turn' 2, 'accompany, join' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · RE (re) · WI (wi)

## Compared forms

- Eblaite: *ʾūr-* — ʾūr- 'light' in names: ù-rí-lum, ù-rí-ḫa-mu (GlOS 1, 54)
- Alalakh: ú-re-el-mu, ú-ri-ya (GlOS 1, 54)

## Attestations

- [HT 25a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT25a/index.md>): U-RE-WI 1 — personal name, 'light of the Levite', 1

## Commentary

HT 25a, a personnel roster: U-RE-WI 1, on the same roster as DU-RU-WI. ʾūr-lēwī 'light of the Levite': U writes ʾūr 'light, flame' (√ʾ-w-r) and RE-WI lēwī, the type of Hebrew ʾŪriyyāh (HALOT 25). DU-RU-WI ends in the same -WI on the same tablet, an ethnonymic element. Rival: lāwī, the Ebla name la-wi 'one who encircles' (Pagan 1998, row 3460). One attestation.

## Same root

- [AU-RE-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/AU-RE-TE/index.md>) (ʾawrēt)
- [DU-RU-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-RU-WI/index.md>) (ḏu-luwwī)

## In the onomasticon

- [U-RE-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/U-RE-WI/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; GlOS 1; Pagan 1998
- 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
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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