# TA-NA-MA-JE (Tanʿamay)

> personal name, 'She is gracious'

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

- Reading: Tanʿamay
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*nʕm](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2611/index.md>) 'to be good'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TA (ta) · NA (na) · MA (ma) · JE (je)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: NAʿM-IJA, NA-MI-IA, fem. (Gelb 1980 no. 5001); NAʿM-IJA, NA-AḪ-MI-IA, with ḫ for ʿ (no. 4896); 3 f. sg. ta- in TA-BNIJ+ʿAŠTAR, TAB-NI-EŠ₄-DAR, fem. (no. 6055)
- Ugaritic: nʿmy, syll. nu-ú-ma-ya, PN (DULAT 607)
- Eblaite: na-mi, naʿm-ī 'my grace', PN (Pagan 1998, rows 3821–3822)

## Attestations

- [PE 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PE6/index.md>): I-NA-\[?\]-TE TA-NA-MA-JE — personal name, 'She is gracious'

## Commentary

PE 6 .2 TA-NA-MA-JE, alone on the line below the ruling, under .1 I-NA-[?]-TE (Younger, Linear A Texts, Other Texts: Petras). ta-nʿam-ay: ta- the 3 f. sg. prefix of women's names such as Amorite TAB-NI-EŠ₄-DAR (Gelb no. 6055), √n-ʿ-m with the ʿ unwritten, -ay the hypocoristic of Ugaritic nʿmy, nu-ú-ma-ya (DULAT 607). Rival: Ugaritic tnmy 'overflow (?)', an exact consonant match, once, in a broken line (KTU 1.1 IV 9; DULAT 860). One witness. See TA-NU-MU-TI.

## Same root

- [TA-NU-MU-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NU-MU-TI/index.md>) (ta-nʿum-u-tī)
- [DU-NE-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-NE-MI/index.md>) (ḏū-naʿmi)

## In the onomasticon

- [TA-NA-MA-JE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TA-NA-MA-JE/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; DULAT; Younger, Linear A Texts
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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

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