KU-MA-JU
Qumalu 'Louse' (personal name); rival kumru 'priest'
- Reading
- Qumalu
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- *ḳaml- ~ *ḳalm- ‘louse’
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- SafaiticQML, personal name, ‘Ar. qaml, louse’, four witnesses; Thamudic QMLT, Qatabanic QMLM (Harding 1971, 488)
Attestations1 cited
- HT 20KU-MA-JU ¹⁄₄personal name, 'Louse', ¼; rival kumru 'priest'
Commentary
HT 20 .1–.2 KU-MA-JU ¼, KU at the end of .1 after the heading PA-RO-SU ·, MA-JU at the head of .2, all three signs whole and undotted (GORILA I 37). Geʿez qʷəmal, Harari qumāy ‘louse’ (Leslau 1987, 432), the qʷ the u of KU; the Safaitic name QML ‘louse’ (Harding 1971, 488). JU writes lu. First entry under PA-RO-SU Parʿōš ‘Flea’; SA-RE-JU Šarr-ēlu is another name in the list. Rivals: kumru ‘priest’ (Amorite kumrum, Gelb 1980, 23), which needs JU for ru; Amorite GML ‘to please, to spare’ (Gelb 1980, 19). One witness.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.