# RA-NA-TU-SU (Rannatušu)

> personal name, 'his shout of joy'; rival two names, RA-NA and TU-SU

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Rannatušu
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Palaikastro
- Lexicon: [RA-NA-TU-SU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RA-NA-TU-SU/index.md>)

## Commentary

PK 1 .6, one word, written with its 1 and the next NI over an erasure (GORILA I 281). rannat- 'ringing cry' + -šu 'his': Arabic rannah 'a cry, in joy or sorrow' (Lane 1164), Hebrew rinnāh, with suffixes rinnātî, rinnātām (BDB 943), and the name Rinnāh (1 Chr 4:20). Rival: two names, RA-NA and TU-SU (cf. TU-SU on .6–7). See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [PK 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PK1/index.md>)

## References

- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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