# \*rṣ̂w 'to be glad, satisfied; to accept with pleasure (a sacrifice)'

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: to be pleased; to favour, accept with favour
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/r/3176_to_be_glad_satisfied_to_accept_with_pleasure_a_s.md

## In Linear A

- [TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU/index.md>) (tan-raṣē-u-tī-n(u)): may you (f.) be favorable toward us (N-stem of √r-ṣ-y + indicative -u + analogical 2fs subject clitic -tī + 1cp object -n)

## Notes

PWS *rṣ̂w 'to be glad, satisfied' (Kogan 2015: 126 apud SEDonline 1308); Common Semitic except Akkadian (Huffmon APNM 265). Ug. rṣy 'to treat graciously' (HALOT 1280) rests on an uncertain text.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Eblaitic: /r-ṣ́-y/: names al₆-za-li-im, ìr-za-il (cf. ìr-zaₓ(LAK 384)-ì), tal-za-gú-bí (cf. tal!(rí)-zi, tarₓ(BAN)-zi-na-u₉); raṣ́iy: name lá-zi (Pagan ARES 3 163, 286, 339, 345, 369 apud Sanmartín GlOS 2, 174); Pagan reads /yarḍā/, /yirḍā/, /tarḍā/, /tarḍē/, /raḍī/ (Pagan 1998) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: rṣy (HALOT 1280 apud SEDonline 1308); rāṣāh, nif., with l- Lv 1:4 (HALOT 1281); rṣwn (DNWSI 1082) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: OArm. rqy, pa. (DNWSI 1083 apud HALOT 1280) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: JArm. rṣʾ pa., af. (HALOT 1280); rṣy (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 173) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: rˁe (LSyr. 738; SL 1479 apud SEDonline 1308); pa. (HALOT 1280) (gloss withheld)
- Mandaic Aramaic: RAA III (Drower/Macuch 417a apud HALOT 1280) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: rḍy: Ra-ṣa-ᵈDa-gan (Huffmon APNM 265); tarṣīātu (Streck 2000, 119) (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: *rəʕū (HALOT 1265) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: rḍw (Lane 1099 apud SEDonline 1308) (gloss withheld)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic rḍy; ʾrḍy; Dadanitic rḍy (Al-Jallad 2026, 121) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab rṣ̂w, rṣ̂y (SD 115 apud SEDonline 1308; Sabaweb lemma 1286); Min rṣ̂w (LM 76 apud SEDonline 1308) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: ráyẑi (ML 336 apud SEDonline 1308) (gloss withheld)
- Jibbali: ɛrẓ̂ẹ́ (JL 220 apud SEDonline 1308) (gloss withheld)
- Soqotri: réẓ̂i, ríẓ̂i (LS 404; SLOnline 7606) (gloss withheld)

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