# TE-JA-RE (Teyar)

> personal name, 'Merciful (god)'; rival tayyār 'trader'

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

- Reading: Teyar
- Type: Personal name; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [TE-JA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TE-JA-RE/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 117a, one of ten entries counted 1 each under MA-KA-RI-TE (KU-RO 10), before NA-DA-RE: Ugarit has the man's name Tiyaru, ti-ya-ru₃ (RS 14.0016 r 3); Akkadian tajjāru 'merciful (god)' in Sîn-tayyār, Tayyār-ilu (AHw 1304). Rival: tayyār 'trader' (√t-w-r). See the lexicon entry. One witness.

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>)

## References

- AHw: von Soden, Wolfram (1981), Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, Bd. I–III. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden

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