# U-TA-I-SE (ʿUtay-se)

> personal name: ʿUtay with the -SE suffix, a recipient of cyperus; rival a Cretan name of another language (LB u-ta-jo)

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

- Reading: ʿUtay-se
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʕtw](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/4412/index.md>) 'to behave proudly, be insolent; to revolt from obedience'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · TA (ta) · I (i) · SE (se)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: עוּתַי ʿÛtay, PN (1 Chr 9:4; Ezra 8:14), the man of 1 Chr 9:4 = עֲתָיָה ʿĂtāyāh (Neh 11:4) (BDB 738–39)
- Safaitic: ʿty PN, 8 bearers, Thamudic 1; 'Ar. ʿatiy, rebellious' (Harding 1971, 406)
- Linear B: u-ta-jo, a man, the 'collector' of the KN D series (DMic I)

## Attestations

- [KH 7b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH7b/index.md>): U-TA-I-SE CYP+D ¹⁄₂ — ʿUtay, with the -SE suffix; cyperus ½[

## Commentary

KH 7b .2 U-TA-I-SE CYP+D ½[, intact at the left edge, then PA-NA-TU CYP+D ½ (GORILA III 31); KH 7a lists *313b-men and cyperus under E-NA-SI, I-JA-PA-ME · TA-TA and QA-TI-KI. ]U-TA-I-SI CYP+D[ on KH 16 (Scribe 1) is the same entry in the other hand's spelling, as A-SE beside A-SI and I-SE beside I-SI. ʿUtay, the hypocoristic of 1 Chr 9:4 and Ezra 8:14 (BDB 738–39), and the Safaitic name ʿty (Harding 1971, 406), U for ʿu; built as MA-KA-I-SE Makī-se, a name in -I with -SE. Cf. LB u-ta-jo, the Knossos 'collector' (DMic I; Killen, Mycenaean Greek, glossary, s.v.). Rival: a Cretan name of another language. One intact witness.

## Same root

- [\*306-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*306-TU/index.md>) (ʿAttu)
- [\*306-TU-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*306-TU-JA/index.md>) (ʿAttuya)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; BDB; Harding
- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- 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
- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company
- 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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