WI-RA-RE-MI-TE

Calf of the Wild Cow (personal name, compound; wild 'young one' + rēmtu 'wild cow')

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Reading
Wild-rēmti
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*wld ‘to bear, give birth to’ 1, ‘boy, child’ 2 + *riʾm- ‘aurochs’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Arabicwalad, wuld, wild, wald, each sing. and pl., masc. and fem., ‘a child, son, daughter, youngling, or young one … of any kind’ (Lane 2966); al-wild, bi-l-kasr, ka-l-walad lughatan ‘wild, with i, is a dialect form of walad’ (Lisān al-ʿArab III 467)
  • Akkadianildu (wildu, weldu, mildu) ‘offspring, progeny’: wi-il-di-ša ‘her offspring’ (CT 8 25a:16, OB); wi-li-id bilim ‘the progeny of the cattle’ (YOS 10 35:31, OB); per hundred ewes 66⅔ mi-il-du (PBS 2/1 145:6f., NB); construct wilid bītim ‘house-born slave’ (VAS 16 4:25, OB) (CAD I/J 71). rīmtu ‘wild cow’, fem. of rī/ēmu; in personal names fRīmtum (OB, MB), Ištar-rīmti-ilī, Aja-rīmti-ilāti, and as a cow’s name (CAD R 358–359)
  • Ugariticrủmrủm ‘wild bull’: k ỉbr l bʕl yld w rủm l rkb ʕrpt 'because to Baal a bull has been born, a wild bull to the Charioteer of the clouds' (KTU 1.10 III 36; DULAT 712)

Attestations1 cited

  1. ZA 9WI-RA-RE-MI-TE *21F 1Calf of the Wild Cow (personal name, compound); ewe 1

Commentary

ZA 9 .6 WI-RA-RE-MI-TE *21F 1, the last entry, a recipient of one ewe after [·]-MA-JU *21F 2; intact, RE a Y with the stem through it (GORILA III 167). Construct by juxtaposition: WI-RA wild ‘young one’, as Akkadian wilid in wilid bītim, RA for l and the final d unwritten; RE-MI-TE rēmti ‘wild cow’, RE for the rē- of rēmu. A name of the type of fRīmat-Ninsun, the wild-cow mother of Gilgameš (CAD R 359). TE writes the genitive -ti, as TA-NA-TE beside TA-NA-TI Tanāti; RA writes l, as in SU-PA₃-RA subāra. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon