# U-\*49 (ʾummi) > mother; rivals Akk. ummu 'capital', u- 'and' + PALM/TREE A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: ʾummi - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*ʾu/imm-]() 'mother' - Kind: Kinship - Language: Semitic - Signs: U (u) · \*49 ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *ummu* — ummu 'mother; initial investment, capital' (CAD U/W 120) - Ugaritic: *um* — um 'mother' (DULAT 67) - Hebrew: *ʾēm* — ʾēm 'mother' (HALOT 61) ## Attestations - [ZA 10b](): U-\*49 6 — mother; or capital; rival 'and palm/tree produce' ## Commentary ZA 10b .3 U-*49 6, in a list of entries with numbers. *49 writes mi, as in DA-U-*49 Dawmi and TO-*49-RE tamir; U-MI ʾummi 'mother', or Akk. ummu 'initial investment, capital' (CAD U/W 120), an account term. Rival: u- 'and' + *49 PALM/TREE, though *49 never stands alone. HT 126a ]U-*49 1 is broken before U. One witness. See U-MI-NA-SI and A-RE-TU-MI. ## Same root - [U-MI-NA-SI]() (Ummī-naśiʾ) ## References - Reading: di Mino - 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 - CAD U/W: Oriental Institute (Martha T. Roth, ed.) (2010), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 20, U and W. The Oriental Institute, Chicago --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-*49/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.