# NA-\*21F-NE-MI-NA (naḫnemina)

> nẖnm-oil, one of the seven sacred oils (Egyptian loanword); rival personal name

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

- Reading: naḫnemina
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: nẖnm
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Middle Egyptian
- Signs: NA (na) · \*21F · NE (ne) · MI (mi) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Egyptian: nẖnm (also nḫnm, nšnm) 'one of the seven sacred oils', from the Pyramid Texts (PT 75) to the Middle Kingdom offering lists, as on the stele of Mery, Louvre C 3 (AED lemma 87760; Wb 2, 319.1–3)

## Attestations

- [HT 115a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115a/index.md>): NA-\*21F-NE-MI-NA 1 — nẖnm-oil, one of the seven sacred oils (Egyptian loanword), 1; rival personal name

## Commentary

HT 115a .2–.3 NA-*21F-NE-MI-NA 1, NA-*21F at the end of .2 after the erased ⟦*301-Ụ-RA⟧, NE-MI-NA at the head of .3, all five signs whole and undotted, on a palimpsest (GORILA I 189). Egyptian nẖnm, one of the seven sacred oils of the offering lists (AED lemma 87760; Wb 2, 319.1–3): *21F writes ẖ as it writes Hurrian ḫ in A-SE-TU-*21F, NE and MI the n and m. NA is the noun ending in -n that Semitic adds to Egyptian loans: Hebrew ʾēṭûn 'linen' < jdm.j (HALOT 37), qîqāyôn 'castor-oil plant' < kꜣkꜣ (HALOT 1099), Akkadian kukkānītu (CAD K 498). HT 135a has ]NẸ-MI-NA 10 (.1) and NA-*21F-NE[ (.3), each matching one end of this word. Rival: a personal name, as Ritmā, Šakūtu and Barāne stand beside it. One whole witness.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; AED; Wb; HALOT; CAD K
- 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
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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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