# QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA (qāmī šū-nāra)

> personal name, 'who stands: He is fire'

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

- Reading: qāmī šū-nāra
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳVwVm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1134/index.md>) 'stand (up), rise' + [\*nūr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1196/index.md>) 'fire' 1, 'to shine, sparkle' 2, 'light' 3, 'lamp' 4
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QA (qa) · MI (mi) · \*47 · NA (na) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: *QWM* — QWM 'to stand'; GA-MI-DINGIR Qawmī-ʾIl (Gelb 1980, no. 1743)
- Eblaitic: *šū-X* — šū-X 'he is X': šū-ʾabu 'he is father', šū-nūrī 'he is my light' (Pagan 1998, rows 4265–4285)
- Arabic: *nār-* — nār- 'fire' beside nūr- 'light' (Kogan 2011, 195)

## Attestations

- [KN Zf 31](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZf31/index.md>): \]SI\[ \]SI-ZA-NE-\*310 DA-DU-MI-NE QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA A-WA-PI TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I A-DA-RA TI-DI-TE-QA-TI TA-SA-ZA TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE — personal name, 'who stands: He is fire': qāmī, as Amorite Qawmī-ʾIl (Gelb 1980, no. 1743), + šū-nāra, the Ebla type šū-X 'he is X' (Pagan 1998); nār 'fire' against nūr 'light' in *47-NU-RA-JA

## Commentary

KN Zf 31, a silver pin, first line, between DA-DU-MI-NE and A-WA-PI; whole and undotted (GORILA IV 155). QA-MI qāmī 'who stands', the opener of Qawmī-ʾIl. *47 = so writes šū, as in *47-NU-RA-JA Šū-nūraya (HT 115a); so for šū is a vowel mismatch only. NA-RA nār 'fire' against NU-RA nūr 'light' on HT 115a, the Arabic pair. Standing, fire and shining forth are the theophany's: yāqûm ʾĕlōhîm 'God arises' (Ps 68:2); ʾĕlōhîm hôpîaʿ … ʾēš lə-pānāyw tōʾkēl 'God shone forth … fire devours before him' (Ps 50:2–3), and A-WA-PI 'he shone forth' follows. The same pin writes SU in TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I. Rival: *47 = mo, manāra 'lampstand' (Ug. mnrt, DULAT 558). One attestation. See *47-KU-NA.

## Same root

- [NU-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NU-RO/index.md>) (nūr-)
- [\*301-U-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*301-U-RA/index.md>) (naura)
- [MA-KA-I-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-KA-I-TA/index.md>) (Makīt)
- [\*47-NU-RA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*47-NU-RA-JA/index.md>) (Šū-nūraya)
- [JA-I-NWA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-I-NWA-RO/index.md>) (yā ʾanwaru)
- [MA-KA-I-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-KA-I-SE/index.md>) (Makī-se)

## In the onomasticon

- [QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/QA-MI-*47-NA-RA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; Pagan 1998; Kogan 2011; DULAT
- Kogan, Leonid (2011), Proto-Semitic Phonetics and Phonology. The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook, ed. Stefan Weninger et al.,De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin,54–151
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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