# U-MI-NA-SI (Ummī-naśiʾ) > My mother is chief/exalted (sentence name) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Ummī-naśiʾ - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*ʾu/imm-]() 'mother' - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: U (u) · MI (mi) · NA (na) · SI (si) - Rank: #96 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - : *Ugaritic ʾum* — Ugaritic ʾum "mother", našaʾa "to lift, raise"; Hebrew nāśīʾ (Gen 23:6 nəśîʾ ʾĕlōhīm); Amorite mother-element in Ummum-ka-abī (Gelb AS 21 nos. 6246–7, FN) and Našiʾ name element (NIQM-I·LA·NAŠIʾ, no. 5051); ʾummī + predicate in ʾUmmī-ʾilī, UM-MI-I₂-LI₂ (no. 6231), a woman's name, as are all of Gelb's ʾUMM-I names; Ebla na-si-um, Amorite ia-aḫ-wi-na-si (GlOS 2, 106); = *301-SI nāśī (PROBABLE) ## Attestations - [HT 117a](): MA-KA-RI-TE KI-RO U-MI-NA-SI — My mother is exalted (sentence name); roster heading, outside the count - [HT 28b](): A-SI-JA-KA U-MI-NA-SI — My mother is exalted (sentence name); heading ## Commentary HT 117a and HT 28b, in the header both times, outside the count: on HT 117a (MA-KA-RI-TE KI-RO U-MI-NA-SI) the roster's ten entries of 1 sum to KU-RO 10 without it, the responsible party, not a counted worker; on HT 28b it stands in the header pair with A-SI-JA-KA before the commodity block. Ummī-naśiʾ 'My mother is chief', a sentence name: ʾummī 'my mother', the geminate mm written with one sign, with naśiʾ 'chief, exalted one' (√n-ś-ʾ 'lift'; see *301-SI). U- is radical: bare MI-NA-SI and DI-MI occur nowhere in the corpus, and the tablet's other U- words are radical too, U-SU ʾUšu, mainland Tyre, and U-DI-MI ʾUdmī, the man of Udum, origin labels known from Amarna. Amorite women's names carry the mother element (Ummum-ka-abī 'the mother is like my father'). Rival: u-Minasī 'and Minasī', MI-NA-SI sign for sign the Neo-Assyrian Mi-na-si-i (Manasseh), √m-n-n with mnn > mnš, beside MI-NA-NE; it needs the conjunction, the dissimilation and an eight-century reach, and the Ugaritic mnn > mnš pair is in neither the Copenhagen Ugaritic Corpus nor DULAT, where the tribute word is mnḥ (KTU 3.8:21, 3.10:1; mnḥy 'offering', KTU 1.2 I 38). See DA-NA-SI, U-*49. ## Same root - [U-\*49]() (ʾummi) ## In the onomasticon - [U-MI-NA-SI](): Personal name, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino - KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2 - AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - 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 - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-MI-NA-SI/ 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.