# \*ʕaṯtar- 'ʕAṯtar (astral god)'

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

- Author's gloss: ʿAṯtar, a god
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%CA%BF/3775_Attar_astral_god.md

## In Linear A

- [A-TI-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TI-RU/index.md>) (ʿAttiru): ʿAttiru, personal name, the nisbe 'man of ʿAṯtar'; rival ʿatīru 'entreated'

## Notes

The god of the pair whose goddess is ʕAṯtart (2770).

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: ʕṯtr DN m. (DULAT 190)
- Amorite: ʕAštar DN (Gelb AS 21, 15)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: ʕttr (LGz. 73) (gloss withheld)

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