DU-MA-I-NA

He of the Spring (personal name; ḏū 'he of' + maʿīn 'spring, flowing water'); rival a product, '(the drink) of the spring'

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Reading
ḏū-maʿīna
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ḏī- ‘he who, that which’ (masculine…) + *maʕyān- ‘spring, fountain’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewmaʿyānmaʿyān ‘spring, source; place of origin, headwaters’; maʿyan mayim (Lev 11:36) (HALOT 612)
  • Syriacmeʿīnā (HALOT 612)
  • Arabicmaʿīnmaʿīn ‘spring’ (HALOT 612); rabwatin ḏāti qarārin wa-maʿīnin ‘a high ground having level areas and flowing water’ (Q 23:50); kaʾsin min maʿīn ‘a cup from a flowing spring’ (Q 37:45, 56:18)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 123+124bDU-MA-I-NA ³⁄₈He of the Spring (personal name), ⅜; rival a product, '(the drink) of the spring'

Commentary

HT 123+124b .5 DU-MA-I-NA ⅜, after SI-DU and before KU-RO 20, on a face written over an erasure; I underdotted, whole in the facsimile beside the break that crosses NA (GORILA I 212–213). DU ḏū ‘he of’, as in DU-ZU-WA and DU-RU-WI; MA-I-NA maʿīna, the ʿ unwritten, I for ī, as Syriac meʿīnā. A recipient named for his spring, as the ḏāti … maʿīn of Q 23:50. Rival: a product, ‘(the drink) of the spring’, after TU-PA-DI-DA. Weak points: I is dotted; Arabic maʿīn and Syriac meʿīnā are late. One attestation. Cf. DU-ZU-WA.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

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