MA-I-MI

water(-men), water-drawers of the sanctuary; rival Anatolian 'grown-ups'

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Reading: mayimi
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *maʾ-/*may- ‘water’
Kind: Personnel
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Ugariticmh/ymh/y ‘water’, pl. mym; tkmt my ‘who carries water on her shoulders’ (KTU 1.19 II 6)
AkkadianmēmaEA mi-e-ma, mi-ma /mēma/ < /mayma/ ‘water’ (CAD M/2 17)
Hebrewמַיִםmayimמַיִם mayim ‘water’; שֹׁאֲבֵי מַיִם ‘drawers of water’ (Josh 9:21, 27; Deut 29:10)
Phoenician𐤌𐤉𐤌mymmym ‘water’

Attestations1 cited

HT 89 3DMA-I-MI 24

Commentary

HT 89 MA-I-MI 24, third of five classes under A-SA-RA₂ · *307 (dubur ‘sanctuary’), KU-RO 87. mayimi ‘water’ (DULAT 529): the sanctuary’s water-drawers, as the Gibeonites drew water for the altar (Josh 9:27), and the Nethinim stand beside the gatekeepers (Ezra 7:24); compare TA-RA. Rival: Uchitel’s Anatolian ‘grown-ups’, from mai- ‘to grow’ (Uchitel 2006, 75); Hittite makes its participle mi(y)ant- (EDHIL 541–542), and the -mi participle is Luwian (Finkelberg 1990/91, 80 n. 86), which has no verb mai- (Melchert 1993, 146). One attestation. See MI-JA.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 89Haghia Triada…ma-i-mi