# WI-TE-JA-MU (Widd-tiyāmu)

> Beloved of the Deep (title or name)

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

- Reading: Widd-tiyāmu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*tihām-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2765/index.md>) 'deep, primordial ocean, abyss; Tiamat (DN)'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: WI (wi) · TE (te) · JA (ja) · MU (mu)

## Compared forms

- Arabic: *widd* — widd 'love' (Lane 2931); names of wdd + a god: wddʾl, wddʿm (Harding 1971, 637)
- Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎅𐎎 *thm* — thm 'ocean', thmt 'Primordial Ocean' (DULAT 851); ydd il ġzr 'beloved of El, the hero' (DULAT 943)
- Hebrew: *təhôm* — təhôm 'the Deep' (HALOT 1689)
- Akkadian: tâmtu, tiāmtu 'sea'; Tiāmat (CAD T 150)
- Eblaite: AB.A = ti-ʔà-ma-tum tihāmat 'sea' (GlOS 2, 292)

## Attestations

- [PL Zf 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PLZf1/index.md>): \]TA WI-TE-JA-MU U-QE-TI JA-SA-SA-RA-\[ME?\] TA-NU-NI-KI-NA NI-NU-NI \[?\]-I-\[?\] — Beloved of the Deep

## 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.

## In the onomasticon

- [WI-TE-JA-MU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/WI-TE-JA-MU/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD T: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (2006), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 18, T. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- 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
- 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

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