SI-RU

shade, protection (personal-name element)

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Reading
ṣillu
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ṯ̣il(l)- ‘shadow, shade’, ‘to shade’, ‘protection’…
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

  • Amoriteṣill-ṣill- ‘shade, protection’ (Huffmon, APNM 257); Ṣillī-Baʿli, Ṣill-Haddu
  • Hebrewצֵלṣēlṣēl (צֵל) ‘shade’ (HALOT 1024); Ṣillāh (HALOT 1025)
  • Ugariticẓilluẓl /ẓillu/ ‘shade’ (Huehnergard 2012)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 55aSI-RU 1PN Ṣillu, 'shade, protection'
  2. HT 90SI-RU-MA-RI-TA₂ GRA 1

Commentary

Name on the HT 55a KI-RO list (SI-RU 1) and first element of HT 90 SI-RU-MA-RI-TA₂ (GORILA I 107, 143). Amorite ṣill- ‘shade, protection’ (Huffmon 1965, 257): Ṣillī-Baʿli (Huffmon 1965, 58), Ṣill-Haddu, Ṣillān (Gelb 1980, nos. 6482–6483); Heb. ṣēl ‘shade’ (HALOT 1024), the name Ṣillāh (Gen 4:19; HALOT 1025); Ug. ẓl /ẓillu/ ‘shade, shadow’ (Huehnergard 2012, 161). ẓill-, written with SI and one RU for the geminate. Two attestations.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon