Personal name · Semitic

MA-TI-ZA-I-TE

Protector of the olive trees (personal name; matiʿ 'protector' + zayt 'olive tree'); rival Hurrian mat-

Reading: Matiʿ-zayti
Type: Personal name Speculative
Language: Semitic Speculative
Sites: Palaikastro
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: MA-TI-ZA-I-TE

Commentary

PK 1 .7 MA-TI-ZA-I-TE 1, in a roster of names entered singly (GORILA I 281). Matiʿ-zayti, Amorite MTʿ ‘to protect’ (Gelb 1980, 25), spelt MA-TI- as Matiʿ-ʾIl (no. 4568), + zayt ‘olive tree’ (HALOT 268), as in Hebrew Zêtān (HALOT 269). Rival: Hurrian mat-. See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry MA-TI-ZA-I-TE.

AmoriteMTʿ ‘to protect’: jamattiʿ, mataʿa, matiʿum (Gelb 1980, 25); names MATI+ʾIL, MA-TI-DINGIR; MATI+ʾAHL-I, MA-TI-IA-LI; MATI+TIWR-UM, MA-TI-TI-RUM (Gelb 1980, nos. 4568, 4570, 4573)
Hebrewzayitzayit ‘olive tree, olive’ (HALOT 268); Zêtān, a man of Benjamin, ‘who has dealings with olive trees’ (1 Chr 7:10; HALOT 269)
Ugaritic𐎇𐎚ztzt ‘olive; olive tree; olive grove’ (DULAT 984)