U-TI-NU

verbal ending: indicative -u + 2fs -tī + -n(u) 'us'

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-u-tī-n(u)
Confidence
Candidate
Root
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Kind
Ritual
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Arabicqatal-ti-nāqatal-ti-nā ‘you (f.) killed us’, 2fs subject before 1cp object (Fischer 2002, §§207, 268, 270)
  • Hebrewhôradtēnûhôradtēnû ‘you (f.) let us down’, Josh 2:18
  • Akkadianattī … ul taremmīnâši ‘you do not love us’, Enūma eliš I 119–120 (Haubold et al. 2025, 32–33)
  • Ugariticʾargumu-kīindicative -u before a suffix, ʾargmk /ʾargumu-kī/ ‘I will say to you (fs)’, KTU 1.3 III 21; 1cp object -n, -nā (Huehnergard 2012, 33–34, 74)
  • Amarna CanaaniteByblos ta-šap-pár-taByblos ta-šap-pár-ta ‘why were you sent?’, the person marked twice, by prefix ta- and suffix -ta, EA 102:10 (Baranowski 2014, 120; Rainey 1996, 2:345); yâtinu ‘us’, EA 74:26; ittinu ‘with us’, EA 81:50 (Rainey 1996, 1:68, 91)

Attestations3 cited

  1. IO Za 23DSI-RU-TE TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU I-DA-[?]May you be favorable toward us
  2. IO Za 63DTA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NU I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA JA-SA-SA-RA-MEMay you (f.) answer us
  3. IO Za 11U-TI-NU I-NA-I-DAbroken group. Not readable.

Commentary

Ending of the petition verb: TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU (IO Za 2), TA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NU (IO Za 6), ]U-TI-NU · I-NA-I-DA-[ (IO Za 11, broken before U). Davis, Thomas and Monti isolate it (Monti 2022, 111–112). U = indicative -u, TI = 2fs -tī, which fixes the ta- prefix as 2fs, as in PS Za 2 TA-NA-I-*301-TI ‘may you (f.) answer’, NU = -n(u) ‘us’ (di Mino, Ya Diktu; cf. Eblaite accusative -nu, Kogan and Krebernik 2021, 754). Thomas takes -u-, -ti- and -nu as three suffixes, not one morpheme (Thomas 2020, 16). Rival: -NU the precative particle (cf. Heb. nāʾ, Ps 119:108). Three attestations.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).

Linear A Lexicon