# TU-MA (tūma)

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

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

- Reading: tūma
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*tVʾVm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2914/index.md>) 'twin'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TU (tu) · MA (ma)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: TU-MA-NU-UM tuʾmānum (Gelb 1980, no. 6114), TA-MI (no. 6028), fem. tu-a-ma-tum, 'twin' (GlOS 2, 290)

## Attestations

- [HT 94b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT94b/index.md>): TU-MA 1 — PN (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.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; 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
- 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
- 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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