# U-TA-I-SE (ʿUtay-se)

> personal name: ʿUtay with the -SE suffix, a recipient of cyperus; rival a Cretan name of another language (LB u-ta-jo)

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

- Reading: ʿUtay-se
- 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: Khania
- Lexicon: [U-TA-I-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-TA-I-SE/index.md>)

## Commentary

KH 7b .2 U-TA-I-SE CYP+D ½[, a cyperus recipient; ]U-TA-I-SI on KH 16 in Scribe 1's spelling. ʿUtay, Hebrew ʿÛtay (1 Chr 9:4; Ezra 8:14; BDB 738–39) and Safaitic ʿty (Harding 1971, 406), with -SE, as MA-KA-I-SE. Rival: a Cretan name of another language, cf. LB u-ta-jo (DMic I). One witness.

## Attestations

- [KH 7b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH7b/index.md>)

## References

- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- 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

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