# U-TI-NU (-u-tī-n(u)) > verbal ending: indicative -u + 2fs -tī + -n(u) 'us' A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: -u-tī-n(u) - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Kind: Ritual - Language: Semitic - Signs: U (u) · TI (ti) · NU (nu) ## Compared forms - Arabic: *qatal-ti-nā* — qatal-ti-nā 'you (f.) killed us', 2fs subject before 1cp object (Fischer 2002, §§207, 268, 270) - Hebrew: *hôradtēnû* — hôradtēnû 'you (f.) let us down', Josh 2:18 - Akkadian: attī … ul taremmīnâši 'you do not love us', Enūma eliš I 119–120 (Haubold et al. 2025, 32–33) - Ugaritic: *ʾargumu-kī* — indicative -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 Canaanite: *Byblos ta-šap-pár-ta* — Byblos 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) ## Attestations - [IO Za 2](): SI-RU-TE TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU I-DA-\[?\] — May you be favorable toward us - [IO Za 6](): TA-NA-I-\*301-U-TI-NU I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA JA-SA-SA-RA-ME — May you (f.) answer us - [IO Za 11](): U-TI-NU I-NA-I-DA — broken 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. ## References - Reading: di Mino; Monti 2022; Kogan and Krebernik 2021; Thomas 2020 - Kogan, Leonid; Krebernik, Manfred (2021), Eblaite. In J.-P. Vita (ed.), History of the Akkadian Language, Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/152), ch. 12, pp. 664–989 - 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 - Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson - EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press - Haubold, Johannes; Helle, Sophus; Jiménez, Enrique; Wisnom, Selena (eds.) (2025), Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Epic of Creation. The Library of Babylonian Literature,Bloomsbury Academic, London - Thomas, Rose (2020), Some Reflections on Morphology in the Language of the Linear A Libation Formula. Kadmos,59,1–23 - Rainey, Anson F. (1996), Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets: A Linguistic Analysis of the Mixed Dialect Used by the Scribes from Canaan. Handbuch der Orientalistik, Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten 25,1–4,E. J. Brill - Fischer, Wolfdietrich (2002), A Grammar of Classical Arabic. Yale Language Series,Yale University Press - Monti, Orazio (2022), Some Observations on the Language of Linear A. Kadmos,61,107–115 - Baranowski, Krzysztof J. (2014), The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan. PhD dissertation, Graduate Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto - Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp. --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-TI-NU/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.