- Reading
- kumina
- Confidence
- Probable
- Root
- *kamm-ūn- ‘cumin’
- Kind
- Commodity
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- #64 of the top 100
Compared forms
- SumerianU.GAMUN (plant determinative + GAMUN)
- Akkadiankamūnu / kammūnu—OB ration lists, medical texts
- Ugaritickmn—attested at Ugarit (Klein, CEDHL)
- Linear Bku-mi-no (𐀓𐀖𐀜)—Knossos/Pylos palatial spice inventories, 15th c. BCE
- Hebrewכַּמֹּן kammōn (Isa 28:25, 27)
- Arabicكمون kammūn
- Greekκύμινον kuminon—universally recognized Semitic loanword
Attestations2 cited
- HT 54a]-KU-MI-NA-QE-[
- HT Wc 3014KU-MI-NA
Commentary
On the HT Wc 3014 roundel, KU-MI-NA (side a) and QE (side b, the standalone qab-measure √q-b-b before the CAP caprid logogram) are separate entries. A Wanderwort: Sumerian U.GAMUN, Akk. kamūnu, Ug. kmn, Linear B ku-mi-no, Greek κύμινον; KU-MI-NA has the skeleton of ku-mi-no, a Semitic loan in Linear B. HT 54a.2 reads ]KU-MI-NA-QE[, broken at both ends (GORILA I 105). A-KU-MI-NA and A-DU-KU-MI-NA on ZA 10a are names from the homograph √k-m-n ‘hide, shelter’ (HALOT 481).
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.