A-TA-I-*301-WA-E

I make myself a dwelling (Palaikastro dialect variant, 1cs tG-stem middle-reflexive of √NWY)

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Reading
ʾatainawē
Confidence
Confirmed
Root
*nwy ‘pasture land, grazing place’ 1, ‘abode…’
Kind
Verbal
Language
Semitic
Rank
#13 of the top 100

Compared forms

  • Hebrewנָוֶהnāwehnāweh (נָוֶה) ‘comely habitation, pasture’ (Exod 15:13, Ps 23:2 [nĕʾōt, pl. construct], Isa 33:20, Jer 25:30); nāʾwāh (נָאוָה) ‘comely’ (Song 1:5); √n-w-y ‘to dwell, settle’
  • Amoritenawûmnawûm ‘steppe; encampment (man and beast)’ (Huffmon, APNM 237); nawijum ‘nomadic encampment’ (Gelb, AS 21)
  • Akkadiannamûnamû A (nawû) ‘pasture land … and its population and flocks; outlying area around a city’ (CAD N/1, 249–51)
  • Arabicنوىnawānawā (نوى) ‘to intend, set out for’; nawan, an-nawā (النَّوَى) ‘the abode, the place one sets out for’
  • Greekναόςnaosναός (naos) ‘temple’ < *nawos, same √n-w-y (Bernal 1987, Rendsburg 1989); cf. Exod 15:13 nəwēh qodšekhā ‘Thy holy shrine’

Attestations1 cited

  1. PK Za 113DA-TA-I-*301-WA-E A-DI-KI-TE-TE-[?]I make myself a dwelling

Commentary

PK Za 11: the Palaikastro spelling of A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA, whose reading and cognates it shares. -WA-E for -WA-JA writes ay as ē, as the Palaikastro scribes do.

On the 3D inscriptions2 inscriptions

SY Za 3Syme Viannoua-ta-i-*301-wa…Matched on its surviving signsPK Za 11Palaikastroa-ta-i-*301-wa-e
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