- Reading
- šannāri
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- *šVn(n)ār- ~ *šurān- ‘cat’
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Akkadianšurānušurānu ‘cat’; Šu-ra-nu, a personal name (CAD Š/3 339)
- Arabicsinnawrsinnawr ‘cat’ (Lane 1445)
- Ugariticsnr, syll. si-na-ri, si-na-ru, a personal name (Kinlaw 1967, 101), read ‘cat’ (GlOS 2, 201)
- AmoriteŠurān-at-um, a woman’s name (Gelb 1980, no. 5952)
Attestations1 cited
- ZA 11bSA-*301-RI GRA+PA 1
Commentary
ZA 11b .1–.2 E-TO-RI-[?] *516 / SA-*301-RI · GRA+PA 1 / I OLIV 1. šannāri ‘Cat’, with *301 = na: SA-NA-RI, s-n-r, as Arabic sinnawr ‘the cat’ (Lane 1445), where Akk. šurānu has r before n; the geminate nn unwritten. Ugarit has the name: si-na-ri, sí-na-a-r[i] (Kinlaw 1967, 101), read ‘cat’ (GlOS 2, 201). Rival: a name from a town, as DULAT derives Ugaritic snr from Sināru (DULAT 753). Weak point: *301 = na is a proposed value. One attestation.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.