TAMIR

proposed Semitic lexical name of the PALM/TREE sign

𐘪*49AB492 entries
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Reading
tamir
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*tam(V)r- ‘palm tree’
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewtāmārtāmār ‘date palm’ (HALOT 1756)
  • Ugariticsyllabic [ta]-ma-rusyllabic [ta]-ma-ru ‘date palm’ (HALOT 1756)
  • Phoenician𐤕𐤌𐤓tmrtmr ‘date palm’ (Krahmalkov 494)
  • Arabictamrtamr ‘dried dates’ (Lane 317)

Attestations4 cited

  1. PE 2TO-*49-RE 1
  2. HT 126a]U-*49 1
  3. ZA 10bU-*49 6
  4. HT 120DA-U-*49 A517 20

Commentary

*49 (AB049), PALM/TREE by its pictorial form, four tokens at three sites: TO-*49-RE (PE 2), DA-U-*49 (HT 120), U-*49 whole (ZA 10b) and ]U-*49 after a left break (HT 126a). tamir, PS *tamr- ‘date palm’: Heb. tāmār (HALOT 1756), with Ug. syllabic [ta]-ma-ru (HALOT 1756), Arb. tamr ‘dates, the fruit of the palm-tree’ (Lane 317). TO-*49-RE gives t-m-r with *49 in its proposed value mi, and DA-U-*49 reads Dawmi. Weak point: *49 = mi is a proposed value; Linear B writes *49 beside ordinary MI in tu-*49-mi. See TO-MI-RE.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon