# A-RA-NA-RE (Aranare)

> personal name; Ugaritic ålnr (Hurrian), Linear B a-ra-na-ro

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Aranare
- Type: Personal name; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Hurrian; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [A-RA-NA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RA-NA-RE/index.md>)

## Commentary

Ugaritic ålnr, a Hurrian personal name set beside Linear B a-ra-na-ro, the man on KN As 1516.11 (DULAT 57); first element allai 'the Lady' (Laroche, GLH 42–43). Rival: Gordon's Egyptian ꜥꜣ-rn-Rꜥ 'Great-is-the-name-of-Re' (Gordon 1966 §127).

## Attestations

- [HT 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT1/index.md>)

## References

- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- 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

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