Personal name · Semitic

WI-RA-RE-MI-TE

Calf of the Wild Cow (personal name, compound; wild 'young one' + rēmtu 'wild cow')

Reading
Wild-rēmti
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Zakros
Attestations
1
Lexicon
WI-RA-RE-MI-TE

Commentary

ZA 9 .6 WI-RA-RE-MI-TE *21F 1, a recipient of one ewe (GORILA III 167). Wild-rēmti: wild ‘young one’, Akkadian wildu, wilid bītim (CAD I/J 71), Arabic wild (Lane 2966), + rēmti ‘wild cow’, Akkadian rīmtu, fRīmtum (CAD R 358–359). See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry WI-RA-RE-MI-TE.

  • Arabicwalad, wuld, wild, wald, each sing. and pl., masc. and fem., ‘a child, son, daughter, youngling, or young one … of any kind’ (Lane 2966); al-wild, bi-l-kasr, ka-l-walad lughatan ‘wild, with i, is a dialect form of walad’ (Lisān al-ʿArab III 467)
  • Akkadianildu (wildu, weldu, mildu) ‘offspring, progeny’: wi-il-di-ša ‘her offspring’ (CT 8 25a:16, OB); wi-li-id bilim ‘the progeny of the cattle’ (YOS 10 35:31, OB); per hundred ewes 66⅔ mi-il-du (PBS 2/1 145:6f., NB); construct wilid bītim ‘house-born slave’ (VAS 16 4:25, OB) (CAD I/J 71). rīmtu ‘wild cow’, fem. of rī/ēmu; in personal names fRīmtum (OB, MB), Ištar-rīmti-ilī, Aja-rīmti-ilāti, and as a cow’s name (CAD R 358–359)
  • Ugariticrủmrủm ‘wild bull’: k ỉbr l bʕl yld w rủm l rkb ʕrpt 'because to Baal a bull has been born, a wild bull to the Charioteer of the clouds' (KTU 1.10 III 36; DULAT 712)
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