# TI-MA-RU-WI-TE (Tīmar-luwwīt)

> Timar the Levite (f.), priestess (woman's name and title); rival Tamar + WI-TE

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

- Reading: Tīmar-luwwīt
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*tam(V)r-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/737/index.md>) 'palm tree'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TI (ti) · MA (ma) · RU (ru) · WI (wi) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: תִּמֹרָה *timmōrā* — timmōrā תִּמֹרָה 'palm-shaped ornament' (HALOT 1757), carved with cherubim in Solomon's temple (1 Kgs 6:29, 32, 35); PN Tamar תָּמָר (Gen 38:6); Lēwî, named by his mother Leah (Gen 29:34)
- Minaean: *lwʾt* — lwʾt 'priestess': lwʾtn S¹lmy 'the priestess Salmay', daughter of a priestess (M 333, RES 3357); lwʾtn Mwʾl 'the priestess Mwʾl' and her property (M 358, RES 3697), Dedan (DASI)
- Amorite: TAMAR-U, TA-MA-RU (Gelb 1980 no. 6027)

## Attestations

- [PYR 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PYR1/index.md>): TI-MA-RU-WI-TE \*806-VIN 90

## Commentary

PY R 1 .1–2 TI-MA-RU-WI-TE, a ligature and VIN 90, the only entry (GORILA I 322). TI-MA writes Tīmar 'palm', the final r unwritten before the l of luwwīt, both in the R-series, with the i of Heb. timmōrā 'palm-shaped ornament' (HALOT 1757). RU-WI-TE writes luwwīt, the feminine of luwwī as in DU-RU-WI (HT 25a). A name with a title, as Minaean lwʾtn S¹lmy 'the priestess Salmay', a priestess's daughter (M 333). Rival: TI-MA-RU Tamar, Amorite TA-MA-RU (Gelb 1980, no. 6027), with WI-TE from √w-d-d, as in WI-TE-JA-MU. See TO-MA-RO.

## Same root

- [TAMIR](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TAMIR/index.md>) (tamir)
- [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)

## In the onomasticon

- [TI-MA-RU-WI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TI-MA-RU-WI-TE/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GORILA I; HALOT; DASI; Gelb 1980
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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