O-KA-MI-ZA-SI-I-NA

personal name: 'Sîn has gathered in / laid up (the child)'—verb + DN sentence name

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Reading
Ukammis-Sîn
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*kamas- ‘gather’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

  • Akkadiankamāsukamāsu A ‘to gather in’, D kummusu (CAD K 114); moon-god Suen/Sîn, OB {d}suen, su₂-en, zu-en.
  • AmoriteGelb AS 21 glossary KMS "to hide"; nouns kamisum, kumisum, kumsum; names KAMIS-UM (nos. 1745, 3971, 3972), JA-KMIS-I Yakmisi (no. 2910), KUMS-AJA (no. 4163). Sîn in Amorite names is a Mesopotamian borrowing: cult at Mari, treaty in his temple at Ḥarran, Ḥa-an-na-EN.ZU (Huffmon 1965, 35, 273).
  • Hebrewkāmuskāmus "laid up" // ḥātûm "sealed" (Deut 32:34; HALOT 481); sense parallel Ṣəpanyāh "Yah has treasured" (√ṣ-p-n).

Attestations1 cited

  1. PK 1O-KA-MI-ZA-SI-I-NA 1personal name, 'Sîn has gathered in (the child)', 1

Commentary

PK 1 .3–4, a one-each roster sorted by first sign; SI on the right edge, I-NA at the left margin (GORILA I 280–281; SigLA side b). Ukammis-Sîn ‘Sîn has laid up’: O the u- of the D preterite, KA-MI kamm-, ZA the final s, SI-I-NA Sîn (Suen > Sîn). Akkadian kamāsu A ‘to gather, to bring in’ (CAD K 114), Hebrew kāmus ‘stored up’ (Deut 32:34; HALOT 481); Amorite names on KMS: JA-KMIS-I, KAMIS-UM, KUMIS-AN (Gelb 1980, 23; nos. 2910, 3971, 4116). Sibling frame U-KA-RE-A-SE-SI-NA (PE 1). O writes u, as RO writes ru in SA-RO beside SA-RU šarru; PE 1 U-KA- writes the same u-. Sîn as in the Mari names Erîb-Sîn and Narâm-Sîn (ARM 26/1, 595; FM I, 155). One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon