TU-MA

twin—birth-circumstance personal name from √t-ʾ-m

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Reading: tūma
Confidence: Candidate
Root: *tVʾVm- ‘twin’
Kind: Personal name
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

AmoriteTU-MA-NU-UM tuʾmānum (Gelb 1980, no. 6114), TA-MI (no. 6028), fem. tu-a-ma-tum, ‘twin’ (GlOS 2, 290)

Attestations1 cited

HT 94b 3DTU-MA 1PN (twin, √t-ʾ-m)

Commentary

HT 94b, under KI-RO: TU-MA 1 opens a list of five persons, 1 each, with PA-TA-NE, DE-DI, KE-KI-RU and SA-RU, totalled KU-RO 5. tuʾma ‘twin’, a birth-circumstance name, the medial ʾ unwritten: Heb. tôʾămîm ‘twins’ (Gen 25:24; 38:27), Akk. tū(ʾ)mu (HALOT 1694). The Amorite name TU-MA-NU-UM, Gelb’s TUʾM-AN-UM, is built on the same word (Gelb 1980, no. 6114). One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 94bHaghia Triadatu-ma…