Personal name · Semitic
*306+MI
personal name: 'my kinsman / my (paternal) uncle'
- Reading
- ʿAmmī
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- *306+MI
Commentary
HT 115b, a recipient counted 1. The ligature ʿA+MI, a hypocoristic of the ʿAmmī-DN names: Amorite ʿAMM-IJA (Gelb 1980, no. 735).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry *306+MI.
- AmoriteʿAMM-IJA AM-MI-IA (Gelb AS 21 no. 735), Tuttul am-mi-ia ‘My paternal ancestor’ (Buck 2018, 323); ʿAMM-I+HADD-U AM-MI-A-DU, AM-MI-AD-DU (nos. 726–727); ʿAMM-I+DANN-U AM-MI-DA-NU (no. 728); ḥamm- ‘paternal uncle’ (Huffmon APNM 196)
- Eblaiteam-mi ʿammīam-mi ʿammī ‘uncle’, a name (Pagan 1998, row 960)
- Hebrewעַמִּיʿammîעַמִּי ʿammî ‘my people’ (Hos 2:3); ʿAmmîʾēl (HALOT 844)
- Arabicعَمّʿammعَمّ ʿamm ‘paternal uncle’