RI-MI-SI
Rimši; a personnel group named with the Amorite element rimši (Ugaritic DN rmš)
- Reading
- Rimši
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- *rmś ‘to creep, crawl, swarm’ 1, ‘creeping things’…
- Kind
- Personnel
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- Amorite-linked appendix
Compared forms
- AmoriteGelb AS 21 root RMS (unglossed): Rimši-ʾIl RI-IM-ŠI-DINGIR (no. 5285) and Rimši-ʾIli RI-IM-ŠI-I₃-LI₂ (no. 5286), Mari; feminine ʾAnnu-rimši AN-NU-RI-IM-ŠI (no. 831, Mari) and Kakka-rimši KA-AK-KA-RI-IM-ŠI (no. 3912); same root Ramaši RA-MA-SI (FN), Ramišum RA-MI-SUM
Attestations1 cited
Commentary
HT 119 RI-MI-SI 13, a group in a personnel list. /rimši/ matches the Amorite element in Rimši-ʾIl, Rimši-ʾIli, ʾAnnu-rimši, Kakka-rimši (Gelb 1980, nos. 5285–5286, 831, 3912); Gelb leaves RMŠ unglossed, Sanmartín reads rimš ‘moving, setting in motion’, with Ebla ra-maš (GlOS 2, 167). Ugaritic rmš is a divine name receiving a ram (š l rmš) in KTU 1.46:13, 1.109:7, 1.130:21 (DULAT 730). One attestation.