# KU-MA-JU (Qumalu)

> Qumalu 'Louse' (personal name); rival kumru 'priest'

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

- Reading: Qumalu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳaml- ~ \*ḳalm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2229/index.md>) 'louse'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · MA (ma) · JU (ju)

## Compared forms

- Safaitic: QML, personal name, 'Ar. qaml, louse', four witnesses; Thamudic QMLT, Qatabanic QMLM (Harding 1971, 488)

## Attestations

- [HT 20](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT20/index.md>): KU-MA-JU ¹⁄₄ — personal 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.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Leslau 1987; Harding 1971; Gelb 1980
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- LGz.: Leslau, Wolf (1987), Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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