# TO-MI-RE (tōmir)

> date palm, its produce

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

- Reading: tōmir
- 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: TO (to) · MI (mi) · RE (re)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *tōmer* — tōmer 'palm', tōmer Dəbôrâ, Judg 4:5 (HALOT 1757); 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)

## Attestations

- [PE 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PE2/index.md>): TO-\*49-RE 1

## Commentary

PE 2: TO-*49-RE 1, the last entry of a Petras commodity list, after QA-QA-DA ½ and TO-ME ⅓. *49 is read PALM/TREE as a logogram; at the proposed syllabic value mi, TO-MI-RE gives t-m-r, tōmir, palm or date-palm produce: Proto-Semitic *tam(V)r-, Heb. tāmār 'date palm' (HALOT 1756), Ugaritic tmrm, read 'dates' by Pardee (DULAT 859), Arb. tamr. TO writes the ō of Heb. tōmer 'palm' (Judg 4:5). Final RE writes the coda /r/. Weak point: *49 = mi is a proposed value, and TO-MI-RE is one of its two syllabic witnesses, with DA-U-MI. One attestation. 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)
- [TI-MA-RU-WI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-MA-RU-WI-TE/index.md>) (Tīmar-luwwīt)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; DULAT
- 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
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts

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