# TAMIR (tamir)

> proposed Semitic lexical name of the PALM/TREE sign

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

- Reading: tamir
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*tam(V)r-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/737/index.md>) 'palm tree'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TAMIR (*49)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *tāmār* — tāmār 'date palm' (HALOT 1756)
- Ugaritic: *syllabic [ta]-ma-ru* — syllabic [ta]-ma-ru 'date palm' (HALOT 1756)
- Phoenician: 𐤕𐤌𐤓 *tmr* — tmr 'date palm' (Krahmalkov 494)
- Arabic: *tamr* — tamr 'dried dates' (Lane 317)

## Attestations

- [PE 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PE2/index.md>): TO-\*49-RE 1
- [HT 126a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT126a/index.md>): \]U-\*49 1
- [ZA 10b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA10b/index.md>): U-\*49 6
- [HT 120](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT120/index.md>): DA-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.

## Same root

- [TO-MA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TO-MA-RO/index.md>) (Tōmar)
- [TO-MI-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TO-MI-RE/index.md>) (tōmir)
- [TI-MA-RU-WI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-MA-RU-WI-TE/index.md>) (Tīmar-luwwīt)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; Lane
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London

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