U-TA-RO
additional, surplus, or excess (administrative heading)
- Reading
- watru
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- *wtr ‘very large, surpassing’ 1, ‘to remain over…’
- Kind
- Administrative
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Akkadianwatrumwatrum ‘additional, in excess’; watartum ‘excess, surplus’ (Huehnergard 1997, §10.1)
- Eblaitea-BAN(tarₓ) watāra-BAN(tarₓ) watār ‘abundance’ (GlOS 2, 363)
- Alalakhat-rùat-rù ‘excellent; too much’ (GlOS 2, 363)
Attestations1 cited
- HT 116aU-TA-RO TE
Commentary
HT 116a: U-TA-RO · TE ·, the heading over six entries of grain, oil, olives and *304 (KU-PA-JA, PU-RA₂, SI+SE, PI-*34-TE, SI-KI-NE, QA-NU-MA). watru ‘surplus’, U writing wa and RO a dead vowel: Akk. watru ‘in excess, additional’ (CAD A/2 499), watartu ‘excess, surplus’ (CAD A/2 485; Huehnergard 1997, §10.1). Rival: Heb. √ʿ-t-r ‘entreat’ (Gen 25:21; Judg 13:8), an agent noun *ʿattār ‘supplicant’, unattested. One attestation. See TE-RI.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.