Personal name · Semitic
*301-U-RA
light, radiance (personal name or epithet)
- Reading
- naura
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- *301-U-RA
Commentary
Reading from the lexicon (di Mino). In erasure on HT 115a.2 (GORILA I, 188–91). Rival: naʿar ‘servant, retainer’ (√n-ʿ-r; Heb. נַעַר), which suits a list of people and grain just as well.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry *301-U-RA.
- AmoriteNWR ‘shine’: janūr, nawarum, Nawar (Gelb AS 21, 28); PN NAWAR-I, written NA-WA-RI (Gelb AS 21 no. 5018)
- Akkadiannamru, older nawru ‘bright, shiny, brilliant’ (CAD N/1 239)
- Ugaritic𐎐𐎊𐎗nyrnyr ‘luminary’ (DULAT 644); nr ‘sheen, gleam; lamp’ (DULAT 633)
- Arabicnawwara, anāra ‘it gave light, shone’; nawr ‘blossoms’ (Lane 2864)