# WI-RA-RE-MI-TE (Wild-rēmti)

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

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

- Reading: Wild-rēmti
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*wld](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2109/index.md>) 'to bear, give birth to' 1, 'boy, child' 2 + [\*riʾm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2269/index.md>) 'aurochs'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: WI (wi) · RA (ra) · RE (re) · MI (mi) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Arabic: walad, 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)
- Akkadian: ildu (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)
- Ugaritic: *rủm* — rủm '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)

## Attestations

- [ZA 9](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA9/index.md>): WI-RA-RE-MI-TE \*21F 1 — Calf 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.

## In the onomasticon

- [WI-RA-RE-MI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/WI-RA-RE-MI-TE/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Lane; Lisān al-ʿArab; CAD I/J; CAD R; DULAT
- 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
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD I/J: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1960), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 7, I and J. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- CAD R: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner and Martha T. Roth, eds.) (1999), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 14, R. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- 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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