Personal name · Semitic

PI-RU-E-JU

personal name, 'Offspring of El'; rival 'Fruit of El'

Reading: Pirʾu-ʾēlu
Type: Personal name Speculative
Language: Semitic Speculative
Sites: Phaistos
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: PI-RU-E-JU

Commentary

PH 2 .3, one of three entries of 60 under A-SE-TU-*21F (GORILA I 288–289). Pirʾu-ʾēlu ‘Offspring of El’: Pir-ḫi-ì-lí-šu ‘Offspring-of-His-God’ (CAD P 418). Rival: pir- ‘fruit’. One witness.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry PI-RU-E-JU.

Akkadianpirʾu, pirḫu ‘1. shoot, 2. offspring’ (CAD P 416); Pir-ḫi-ì-lí-šu ‘Offspring-of-His-God’, wr. Pi-ir-i-ì-lí-šu (CAD P 418)
Hebrewpərîpərî ‘fruit’ (PS *pir-), rival