# TA-NU-MU-TI (ta-nʿum-u-tī)

> may you (f.) be gracious, favourable

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

- Reading: ta-nʿum-u-tī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*nʕm](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2611/index.md>) 'to be good'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TA (ta) · NU (nu) · MU (mu) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎓𐎎 *nʿm* — nʿm (I) 'handsome; pleasant; beneficent, gracious; good' (DULAT 605)
- Hebrew: *nāʿam* — nāʿam 'be pleasant' (HALOT 705); nōʿam 'kindness, favour' (HALOT 706)
- Phoenician: 𐤍𐤏𐤌 *nʿm* — nʿm 'good, excellent' (Krahmalkov 331)
- Amorite: NʿM 'be pleasant': naʿimum, niʿimatum (Gelb AS 21, 26)
- Arabic: *naʿima* — naʿima 'it was good, pleasant' (Lane 3035)

## Attestations

- [KN Za 10](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZa10/index.md>): \]TA-NU-MU-TI JA-SA-SA-RA-MA — may you (f.) be gracious (if TA begins the word)

## 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.

## Same root

- [DU-NE-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-NE-MI/index.md>) (ḏū-naʿmi)
- [TA-NA-MA-JE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NA-MA-JE/index.md>) (Tanʿamay)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GORILA IV, 8–9; Beeston et al. 1982, 90, s.v. N²M; Fischer 2002, §162f; Harding 1971, 139; Thomas 2020
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- Thomas, Rose (2020), Some Reflections on Morphology in the Language of the Linear A Libation Formula. Kadmos,59,1–23
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Beeston, A.F.L., M.A. Ghul, W.W. Müller & J. Ryckmans (1982), Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Peeters / Librairie du Liban
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- Fischer, Wolfdietrich (2002), A Grammar of Classical Arabic. Yale Language Series,Yale University Press
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.

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