# TO-MA-RO (Tōmar)

> personal name, 'palm'

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

- Reading: Tōmar
- 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: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TO (to) · MA (ma) · RO (ro)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Amorite: TAMAR-U /ta-ma-ru/, a one-element personal name; also ŠUM-U*TAMAR and ŠUM-U*TAMAR-U (Gelb 1980, nos. 6027, 5716, 5715)
- Hebrew: tōmer תֹּמֶר masculine palm (Judges 4:5, the Palm of Deborah) / tāmār תָּמָר feminine name
- Ugaritic: *tamaru* — syllabic /tamaru/ 'date palm' proposed for Ug. 5 137 (Huehnergard 2008, nos. 175, TMR); tmr, a personal name (GlOS 2, 298)
- Mari: qí-iš-ti-ᵈta-ma-ru Qišti-Tamaru, with the DN Tamaru (GlOS 2, 298)

## Attestations

- [KO(?) Zf 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KO(~3F)Zf2/index.md>): A-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.

## Same root

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

## In the onomasticon

- [TO-MA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TO-MA-RO/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; GlOS 2
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Huehnergard, John (2008), Ugaritic Vocabulary in Syllabic Transcription, revised edition. Harvard Semitic Studies 32, Eisenbrauns
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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