# KI+MU (kumru)

> priest(s) (personnel category, ligatured onset abbreviation)

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

- Reading: kumru
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*kumir-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/48/index.md>) 'priest'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KI (ki) · MU (mu)

## Compared forms

- Eblaite: *gúm-ri-im* — gúm-ri-im 'priest' (GlOS 1, 309)
- Mari: ku-mu-ur, ku-um-rum 'priest' (GlOS 1, 309)
- Emar: kà-ma-ru, ku-ma-ri 'priests' (Pentiuc 2001, 95; GlOS 1, 309)
- Hebrew: kōmer, pl. kəmārîm 'priests' (2 Kgs 23:5)

## Attestations

- [HT 127b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT127b/index.md>): KI+MU 15 — priests(?), 15; erased entry 14
- [HT 26b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT26b/index.md>): KI+MU 12

## Commentary

HT 127b KI+MU 15, after VIR+*313c 24 and before *301 11, with an erased KI+MU 14, KU-RO 292, and HT 26b KI+MU 12, after KA-U-ZU-NI 4: a category label on personnel registers. A two-sign onset abbreviation of kumru 'priest' (√k-m-r): Akk. kumru 'a priest' (CAD K 534), Old Syrian kamr, kumr 'a priest' (GlOS 1, 309), Emar ka-ma-ri 'priests' (Pentiuc 2001, 95), Heb. kōmer (HALOT 482). Weak point: the one fuller spelling, HT 96a ]KU-MA-RO, is broken before KU. Two attestations.

## In the onomasticon

- [KI+MU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KI~2BMU/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pentiuc 2001; GlOS 1; CAD K; HALOT
- 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
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park
- Pentiuc, Eugen J. (2001), West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar. Harvard Semitic Studies 49,Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana

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