# TU-JU-MA (Tuʿlum)

> personal name, 'hidden one'

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

- Reading: Tuʿlum
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ɣlm](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3633/index.md>) 'to be dark; to be hidden'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TU (tu) · JU (ju) · MA (ma)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *ʿlm* — ʿlm 'to be hidden' (HALOT 834)

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>): TU-JU-MA 1 — personal name, 'hidden one'

## Commentary

HT 117a: TU-JU-MA 1 in the roster under MA-KA-RI-TE, 'merchants'. √ʿ-l-m 'to be hidden' (HALOT 834), ʿ unwritten, JU writing lu. Rival: √t-l-m, Heb. telem 'furrow' (HALOT 1740). One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT
- 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

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