TO-MA-RO

personal name, 'palm'

𐘄TOAB057 entries𐙁MAAB8056 entries𐘁ROAB0226 entries
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Reading
Tōmar
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*tam(V)r- ‘palm tree’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

  • AmoriteTAMAR-U /ta-ma-ru/, a one-element personal name; also ŠUM-U*TAMAR and ŠUM-U*TAMAR-U (Gelb 1980, nos. 6027, 5716, 5715)
  • Hebrewtōmer תֹּמֶר masculine palm (Judges 4:5, the Palm of Deborah) / tāmār תָּמָר feminine name
  • Ugaritictamarusyllabic /tamaru/ ‘date palm’ proposed for Ug. 5 137 (Huehnergard 2008, nos. 175, TMR); tmr, a personal name (GlOS 2, 298)
  • Mariqí-iš-ti-ᵈta-ma-ru Qišti-Tamaru, with the DN Tamaru (GlOS 2, 298)

Attestations1 cited

  1. KO(?) Zf 2A-RA-KO-KU-QA-WA-SA-TO-MA-RO-AU-TA-DE-PO-NI-ZA

Commentary

In the bronze-bowl scriptio continua A-RA-KO-KU-QA-WA-SA-TO-MA-RO-AU-TA-DE-PO-NI-ZA. A palm name of the Bronze Age type: Amorite Tamar-u (Gelb 1980, no. 6027), Ugaritic tmr ‘date palm’ (GlOS 2, 298), Hebrew Tāmār (Gen 38; 2 Sam 13). TO writes the ō of Hebrew tōmer ‘palm’ (Judg 4:5); final O is the support vowel of coda r. Weak point: GORILA prints no divider in the sixteen signs, and no sequence beside TO-MA-RO recurs as a word elsewhere, so the word boundary rests on the parse. One attestation. See TO-MI-RE.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon