# JA-MA-U-TI (Yamwuti)

> personal name, Amorite type (yaqtul of √m-w-t)

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

- Reading: Yamwuti
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*mw/yt](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/945/index.md>) 'to die'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JA (ja) · MA (ma) · U (u) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: IA-MU-UT-DA-DU, IA-MU-UT-LI-IM (Gelb 1980, nos. 3370, 3375); bare JA-MWUT-UM, IA₃-A-MU-TUM (no. 3625)
- Hebrew: *mût* — mût 'to die' (HALOT 562)
- Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎚 *mt* — mt 'death' (DULAT 589)
- Egyptian: *mꜣʿt* — mꜣʿt 'Maat' (rival)

## Attestations

- [MA 2c](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/MA2c/index.md>): JA-MA-U-TI 6

## Commentary

MA 2c: ]-U-NA-NA 3, then ]JA-MA-U-TI 6 at the broken left end, sign groups possibly lost before it. Yamwut + -i, the Amorite JA-MWUT names (Gelb 1980, nos. 3370, 3375, 3625): MA-U writes the w of yamwut-, as DA-U-MI writes dawmi, where the cuneiform contracts it (IA-MU-UT-DA-DU); TI writes the root's t with the -i of JA-KU-TI and JA-DU-RA-TI. Rival: JA- + Egyptian mꜣʿt 'Maat'. One attestation. See MI-TU.

## Same root

- [MI-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MI-TU/index.md>) (mītu)

## In the onomasticon

- [JA-MA-U-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/JA-MA-U-TI/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- 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

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