# KU-MI-NA (kumina)

> cumin (Cuminum cyminum)

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

- Reading: kumina
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*kamm-ūn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2696/index.md>) 'cumin'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · MI (mi) · NA (na)
- Rank: #64 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Sumerian: U.GAMUN (plant determinative + GAMUN)
- Akkadian: kamūnu / kammūnu—OB ration lists, medical texts
- Ugaritic: kmn—attested at Ugarit (Klein, CEDHL)
- Linear B: ku-mi-no (𐀓𐀖𐀜)—Knossos/Pylos palatial spice inventories, 15th c. BCE
- Hebrew: כַּמֹּן kammōn (Isa 28:25, 27)
- Arabic: كمون kammūn
- Greek: κύμινον kuminon—universally recognized Semitic loanword

## Attestations

- [HT 54a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT54a/index.md>): \]-KU-MI-NA-QE-\[
- [HT Wc 3014](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3014/index.md>): KU-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).

## Related forms

- KU-MI-NA-QE

## 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
- 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
- Klein: Klein, Ernest (1987), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English. Carta Jerusalem and the University of Haifa; 1st edition

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