# \*306+MI (ʿAmmī)

> personal name: 'my kinsman / my (paternal) uncle'

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

- Reading: ʿAmmī
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʕamm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/44/index.md>) 'relative' 1, 'uncle' 2, 'ancestor' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*306 · MI (mi)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Amorite: ʿAMM-IJA AM-MI-IA (Gelb AS 21 no. 735), Tuttul am-mi-ia 'My paternal ancestor' (Buck 2018, 323); ʿAMM-I+HADD-U AM-MI-A-DU, AM-MI-AD-DU (nos. 726–727); ʿAMM-I+DANN-U AM-MI-DA-NU (no. 728); ḥamm- 'paternal uncle' (Huffmon APNM 196)
- Eblaite: *am-mi ʿammī* — am-mi ʿammī 'uncle', a name (Pagan 1998, row 960)
- Hebrew: עַמִּי *ʿammî* — עַמִּי ʿammî 'my people' (Hos 2:3); ʿAmmîʾēl (HALOT 844)
- Arabic: عَمّ *ʿamm* — عَمّ ʿamm 'paternal uncle'

## Attestations

- [HT 115b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115b/index.md>): \*306+MI 1 — personal name, 'my kinsman', 1

## Commentary

HT 115b *306+MI 1, a recipient after *306-TU-JA 1 and A-I 1. Ligature ʿA+MI: ʿAmmī, the geminate unwritten, the -ī of 'my'; a hypocoristic of the ʿAmmī-DN names, cf. Amorite ʿAMM-IJA (Gelb AS 21 no. 735). One attestation. See A-MA, A-MI-DA-U and A-MA-JA.

## Same root

- [A-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA/index.md>) (ʿamma)
- [A-MA-WA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA-WA-SI/index.md>) (ʿAmma-wāṣiʾ)
- [A-MI-DA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MI-DA-U/index.md>) (ʿAmmī-dāʿ(u))
- [A-MA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA-JA/index.md>) (ʿAmmaya)

## In the onomasticon

- [\*306+MI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/*306~2BMI/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998; Buck 2018
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- 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
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- Buck, Mary Ellen (2018), The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: The Historical Origins of the Bronze Age Polity of Ugarit Based upon Linguistic, Literary, and Archaeological Evidence. 

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