# TU-ME-I (tummī)

> my wholeness, my completeness (noun \*tumm- + 1cs -ī)

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

- Reading: tummī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*tmm](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1052/index.md>) '(to be) completed' 1, 'to last, remain' 2
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TU (tu) · ME (me) · I (i)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *tōm* — tōm 'integrity, completeness'; bətummî 'in my integrity', Ps 26:1 (HALOT 1743)
- Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎎 *tm* — tm 'complete, full' (DULAT 858)

## Attestations

- [PK Za 8](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa8/index.md>): \]NU PA₃-E JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-\*307-PU₂-RE TU-ME-I — my wholeness (noun *tumm- + 1cs -ī)
- [PK Za 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa14/index.md>): \]-TU-ME-I JA-SA-SA-\[ — unread

## Commentary

Two damaged witnesses give the group in full. PK Za 8 (GORILA IV 24–26) secures the start with a divider before TU, but ME is partial and I survives only as the tops of three prongs at the broken corner, with no divider before JA-SA[ on the next face; Younger reads only TU as sure (Younger, Linear A Texts, PK Za 8). PK Za 14 (GORILA IV 40) secures the end, ]-TU-ME-I · JA-SA-SA-[, but breaks before TU. Hebrew תֻּמִּי tummī 'my wholeness, integrity' (Ps 7:9; 26:1) has the same nominal shape. On both vessels √t-m-m stands before a √y-š-r word (JA-SA[, JA-SA-SA-[), as Job 1:1 tām wə-yāšār and Ps 25:21 tōm wāyōšer pair them (di Mino, Ya Diktu), which supports 'my wholeness, [in righteousness]' with the two roots kept apart. Rival: a D-stem imperative 'be made whole', though a regular factitive imperative keeps more of the stem. Two attestations.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Younger, Linear A Texts
- 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
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.

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