# JA-I-NWA-RO (yā ʾanwaru)

> O Radiant One (vocative + elative of √n-w-r 'light'), divine epithet

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

- Reading: yā ʾanwaru
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*nūr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1196/index.md>) 'fire' 1, 'to shine, sparkle' 2, 'light' 3, 'lamp' 4
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JA (ja) · I (i) · NWA (nwa) · RO (ro)

## Compared forms

- Arabic: *ʾanwaru* — ʾanwaru 'lighter, brighter', hāḏā ʾanwaru min ḏāka 'this is brighter than that' (Lane 2866)
- Amorite: NWR 'shine': janūr, nawarum, Nawar (Gelb AS 21, 28)
- Akkadian: namru, older nawru 'bright, shiny, brilliant' (CAD N/1 239)
- Ugaritic: *n-r* — /n-r/ 'to shine'; nr 'sheen, gleam' (DULAT 633)

## Attestations

- [SY Za 4](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/SYZa4/index.md>): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA JA-I-NWA-RO PA₃-NI-WI — O Radiant One

## Commentary

SY Za 4, word 2, after the formula verb A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA, in the deity or recipient slot. RILA-S1 (84) reads JA-I-NWA-RO with RO underdotted and rates GORILA's JA-I-NWA-ZA 'moins probable' (cf. SY Za 11; for ZA cf. KN Zf 31). Sign 3 is NWA (AB48) in both RILA-S1 lines, its only occurrence in the corpus, with the value of Linear B B48 (pe-ru-si-nwa ~ pe-ru-si-nu-wa). JA is vocative ya, as in JA-DI-KI-TU; I writes the aleph, here ʾa (cf. I- for ʾu in I-KU-JU-TI); NWA writes /nw/; -RO writes final /-ru/. ʾanwaru is the ʾaqtal elative of √n-w-r 'light': Arb. 'hāḏā ʾanwaru min ḏāka' (al-Zamakhsharī, Asās al-Balāgha, s.v. nwr). The epithet stands before PA₃-NI-WI 'the Builder', as Ugaritic pairs El's titles ṯr il dpid // bny bnwt 'Builder of Built (Ones)' (KTU 1.4 III 30–32; Smith & Pitard 2009, 39, 447). Same root as NU-RO nūr; Akkadian nawir 'is bright' names a god in OB personal names, Sîn-nawir 'The Moon Is Shining' (CAD N/1 212). Rival: ʾaṣwaru 'Fashioner' (√ṣ-w-r; Q 59:24 al-muṣawwir beside al-bāriʾ), which needs AB48 to be a sibilant + w sign. One attestation. See *301-U-RA.

## Same root

- [NU-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NU-RO/index.md>) (nūr-)
- [\*301-U-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*301-U-RA/index.md>) (naura)
- [\*47-NU-RA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*47-NU-RA-JA/index.md>) (Šū-nūraya)
- [QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-MI-*47-NA-RA/index.md>) (qāmī šū-nāra)

## In the onomasticon

- [JA-I-NWA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/names/JA-I-NWA-RO/index.md>): God or goddess, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Smith, Mark S. & Pitard, Wayne T. (2009), The Ugaritic Baal Cycle, Volume II: Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary of KTU/CAT 1.3-1.4. Vetus Testamentum Supplements 114,Brill
- 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
- CAD N/1: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1980), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 11, N, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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