TA-NU-MU-TI
may you (f.) be gracious, favourable
Compared forms
- Ugaritic𐎐𐎓𐎎nʿmnʿm (I) ‘handsome; pleasant; beneficent, gracious; good’ (DULAT 605)
- Hebrewnāʿamnāʿam ‘be pleasant’ (HALOT 705); nōʿam ‘kindness, favour’ (HALOT 706)
- Phoenician𐤍𐤏𐤌nʿmnʿm ‘good, excellent’ (Krahmalkov 331)
- AmoriteNʿM ‘be pleasant’: naʿimum, niʿimatum (Gelb AS 21, 26)
- Arabicnaʿimanaʿima ‘it was good, pleasant’ (Lane 3035)
Attestations1 cited
Commentary
KN Za 10: ]TA-NU-MU-TI · before JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA (GORILA IV 8–9). ta-nʿum-u-tī ‘may you (f.) be gracious’, a G u-class prefix form of √n-ʿ-m: Arabic naʿuma/yanʿumu has the u-vowel, Sabaic n²m ‘be favourable, prosper’ the closest sense (Beeston et al. 1982, 90), and Hebrew nāʿamt (Song 7:7) the 2fs in the same sense. The ʿ is unwritten. Byblos marks person twice in the same way, ta-šap-pár-ta (EA 102:10), and PS Za 2 writes TA-NA-I-*301-TI (di Mino, Ya Diktu 14). Weak point: the break before TA is of indeterminate extent. Rival: Thomas’s plural-agreement reading, with -ti a third-person plural subject marker (Thomas 2020, 12–14). One attestation. See TA-NA-MA-JE.