Personal name · Semitic

A-RI-NI-TA

She-of-the-Lion (feminine gentilic—priestess/cult title; cf. I-ZU-RI-NI-TA She-of-the-Bull)

Reading
ʾarīnīt
Type
Personal name Candidate
Language
Semitic Candidate
Sites
Haghia Triada, Zakros
Attestations
2
Lexicon
A-RI-NI-TA

Commentary

HT 25a and ZA 8. ʾarīnīt ‘She-of-the-Lion’: feminine -īt on ari ‘lion’, as I-ZU-RI-NI-TA is ‘She-of-the-Bull’. A cult title rests on -īt alone, which also forms relational adjectives and abstracts. Rival: a Hurrian name in ari- ‘give’.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry A-RI-NI-TA.

  • Hebrewari lion (Gen 49:9 gur aryeh Yehudah; Num 23:24; Judg 14:8)
  • Ugariticary lion (KTU 1.5 i 14, Baal cycle)
  • Aramaicarya lion (Dan 6:17ff.)
Linear A Lexicon