# \*118-MI (ṭammi)

> abundance, a counted entry; rival dam 'blood'

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ṭammi
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṭmm ~ \*ʾṭm](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2104/index.md>) 'to be deaf and mute' 1, 'to stop up, fill up' 2, 'to overflow, abound' 3
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*118 · MI (mi)

## Compared forms

- Arabic: ṭamma, of water, 'to abound, rise high' (Lane 1877)

## Attestations

- [ZA 21a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA21a/index.md>): \*118-MI 2

## Commentary

ZA 21a: *118-MI 2 closes a quantity list (PI-MU 40, TE 2, PA 5, TA-MA-PI 3); a counted entry favours a commodity. With *118 = ṭa, √ṭ-m-m (PS *ṭmm): Ar. ṭamma, of water, 'to abound, rise high' (Lane 1877); no case is assigned (Fischer 2002, §140). Rival: dam 'blood', Heb. דָּם (HALOT 224), Ug. dm (DULAT 270), with *118 for plain d. One attestation, two signs. See DA-ME.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; DULAT; Fischer 2002; Lane
- Fischer, Wolfdietrich (2002), A Grammar of Classical Arabic. Yale Language Series,Yale University Press
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London

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