Personal name · Semitic

PI-TE-RI

Piṭrī, personal name, 'my release'

Reading
piṭrī
Type
Personal name Candidate
Language
Semitic Candidate
Sites
Palaikastro
Attestations
1
Lexicon
PI-TE-RI

Commentary

Candidate name in PI-TE-RI A-KO-A-NE, proposed ‘Pitrī, the priest’; compare Ugaritic pṭry and Amorite Annu-puṭri and Ištar-puṭri. Rival: Gordon’s pi-te za ‘this engraved monument’ (1966, §124). See lexicon PI-TE-RI.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry PI-TE-RI.

  • Ugariticpiṭrupṭry, Semitic personal name (DULAT 677); /piṭru/ ‘loosening, release’, pí-iṭ-r[ù] (GlOS 2, 142)
  • AmoritePTRPTR ‘solve, redeem’; Annu-puṭri, Ištar-puṭri; Paṭriya (Gelb 1980, no. 1056)
  • Akkadianpaṭārupaṭāru ‘to release, loosen’ (CAD P 297)
  • Hebrewפָּטַרpāṭarפָּטַר pāṭar ‘to open, release’
Linear A Lexicon