# JI-NU-MA-RE (yinumare)

> wine-lords, wine-stewards (personnel category)

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

- Reading: yinumare
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*wayn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0457/index.md>) 'wine', 'grapes'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JI (*28B) · NU (nu) · MA (ma) · RE (re)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: יַיִן *yayin* — yayin (יַיִן) 'wine' + mārē plural of 'lord'
- Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎐 *yn* — yn 'wine'
- Akkadian: *māru* — māru 'son/lord', plural mārē/mārū

## Attestations

- [ZA 4a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA4a/index.md>): \*28B-NU-MA-RE 13 — wine-stewards (personnel category), 13 units
- [ZA 5b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA5b/index.md>): \*28B-NU-MA-RE 20 — wine-stewards (compound: wine + lords)
- [ZA 15a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA15a/index.md>): \*28B-NU-MA-RE 6

## Commentary

ZA 4a *28B-NU-MA-RE 13, ZA 5b *28B-NU-MA-RE 20, ZA 15a *28B-NU-MA-RE 6, each followed by SI-PI-KI 'pourings' on the Zakros wine tablets, among personal names: a personnel category, the stewards who administer the palace wine. A compound of yīnu 'wine', √y-y-n (Heb. yayin, HALOT 409; Ug. yn, DULAT 954), and mārē 'lords, sons', √m-r-y, cf. Aramaic mrʾ 'lord, master' (DNWSI 682); *28B writes ji, a proposed value, and WE reads the word as well, wēnu-mārē, wēnu < *wayn. Rival: a personal name, from its recurring slot beside SI-PI-KI (Negri, SMEA 43/1, 2001, 82). Three attestations. See VIN.

## Same root

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

## In the onomasticon

- [\*28B-NU-MA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/*28B-NU-MA-RE/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- DNWSI: Hoftijzer, J.; Jongeling, K.; with appendices by R. C. Steiner, A. Mosak Moshavi and B. Porten (1995), Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions. E. J. Brill, Leiden/New York/Köln (Handbuch der Orientalistik I/21), 2 parts

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