Personal name · Semitic
AU-RE-TE
luminous one (feminine)
- Reading
- ʾawrēt
- Type
- Personal name Probable
- Language
- Semitic Probable
- Sites
- Khania
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- AU-RE-TE
Commentary
KH 6, AU-RE-TE · *306 1 on a Cyperus distribution tablet. ʾawrēt ‘luminous one’, √ʾ-w-r ‘to shine’ (Heb. ʾōr) with feminine -ēt. Rival: ‘light’, since -t also forms abstracts and unit nouns (Fischer 2002, §64). One attestation.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry AU-RE-TE.
- Hebrewʾôrâʾôrâ ‘light, brightness’, feminine, Esth 8:16 (HALOT 25)
- Ugariticárár ‘light’ (DULAT 91)
- Phoenician𐤀𐤓ʾrʾr ‘light’ (Krahmalkov 70)
- AmoriteʾWRʾWR ‘shine’: ʾūrum ‘light’, jāʾwir (Gelb AS 21, 14)