U-RE-WI

light of the Levite (compound PN)

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Reading: ʾūr-lēwī
Confidence: Candidate
Root: *ʾVr- ‘day’ 1, ‘light’ 2, ‘sun’ 3, ‘fire, heat’ 4… + *lVwVy- ‘twist, bend’ 1, ‘turn’ 2, ‘accompany, join’ 3
Kind: Personal name
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Eblaiteʾūr-ʾūr- ‘light’ in names: ù-rí-lum, ù-rí-ḫa-mu (GlOS 1, 54)
Alalakhú-re-el-mu, ú-ri-ya (GlOS 1, 54)

Attestations1 cited

HT 25aU-RE-WI 1personal name, 'light of the Levite', 1

Commentary

HT 25a, a personnel roster: U-RE-WI 1, on the same roster as DU-RU-WI. ʾūr-lēwī ‘light of the Levite’: U writes ʾūr ‘light, flame’ (√ʾ-w-r) and RE-WI lēwī, the type of Hebrew ʾŪriyyāh (HALOT 25). DU-RU-WI ends in the same -WI on the same tablet, an ethnonymic element. Rival: lāwī, the Ebla name la-wi ‘one who encircles’ (Pagan 1998, row 3460). One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.