I-NA-WA
the dwelling, abode (sanctuary as divine habitation)
- Reading
- ʾi-nawā
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- *nwy ‘pasture land, grazing place’ 1, ‘abode…’
- Kind
- Ritual
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Amoritenawûmnawûm ‘steppe; encampment (man and beast)’ (Huffmon, APNM 237)
- Hebrewנָוֶהnāwehnāweh (נָוֶה) ‘habitation, pasture-land; temple, shrine’ (Exod 15:13 אֶל־נְוֵה קׇדְשֶׁךָ)
- Akkadiannawûmnawûm ‘pasture, steppe’
- Greekναόςnaosναός (naos) ‘temple, inner sanctum’ < *nawos (Bernal 1987, endorsed Rendsburg 1989)
Attestations1 cited
Commentary
PH 6 (MM IIB), the heading, set off by the divider: I-NA-WA · A-RI / I-ZU-RI-NI-TA / A-RI / I-DA-PA₃-I-SA-RI. ʾi-nawā ‘the dwelling’, the nominal core of the libation formula, spelled with plain NA: A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA ʾata-i-nawa-ya ‘I make myself a dwelling’, eleven times at five peak sanctuaries, conjugates this noun, and *301-WA nawā (IO Za 4) writes it with *301 = na, the sign whose value derives from this root; PH 6 predates that convention. √n-w-y: Heb. nāweh ‘grazing place; settlement’ (HALOT 678–679), Amorite nawûm ‘steppe; encampment’ (Huffmon 1965, 237). ʾi- is the prosthetic vowel, as in I-ZU-RI-NI-TA and I-DA-MA-TE against DA-MA-TE. One attestation.