WI-TE-JA-MU
Beloved of the Deep (title or name)
- Reading
- Widd-tiyāmu
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- *tihām- ‘deep, primordial ocean, abyss’
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Arabicwiddwidd ‘love’ (Lane 2931); names of wdd + a god: wddʾl, wddʿm (Harding 1971, 637)
- Ugaritic𐎚𐎅𐎎thmthm ‘ocean’, thmt ‘Primordial Ocean’ (DULAT 851); ydd il ġzr ‘beloved of El, the hero’ (DULAT 943)
- Hebrewtəhômtəhôm ‘the Deep’ (HALOT 1689)
- Akkadiantâmtu, tiāmtu ‘sea’; Tiāmat (CAD T 150)
- EblaiteAB.A = ti-ʔà-ma-tum tihāmat ‘sea’ (GlOS 2, 292)
Attestations1 cited
Commentary
PL Zf 1, a silver pin from beside Platanos Tholos A: ]TA · WI-TE-JA-MU · U-QE-TI · JA-SA-SA-RA-ME (GORILA IV 161). WI = wid(d)-, as in WI-DI-NA Widdinā, dd unwritten before t; TE-JA-MU = ti(h)āmu, h unwritten, JA the glide. Construct ‘beloved of the Deep’, the title type of Ug. ydd il. Sign dispute: GORILA reads WI and MU, both doubtful; a second reading of the facsimile takes the fourth sign as RU, which gives no reading. -MU the nominative the Amorite construct names keep, as SU-MU-A-BU-UM beside SU-MU-A-BI-IM (Gelb 1980, nos. 5606, 5608). One attestation.