Personal name · Semitic
*47-NU-RA-JA
personal name, 'He is light'; rival mənōrāya 'lampstand (man)'
- Reading
- Šū-nūraya
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
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- Lexicon
- *47-NU-RA-JA
Commentary
Šū-nūraya ‘He is light’, as Ebla su-nu-ri₂ šū-nūrī (Pagan 1998, row 4282) and Ugaritic nu-ri-ia (DULAT 634); on the same palimpsest as *301-U-RA naura.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry *47-NU-RA-JA.
- UgariticPN nryn, syll. nu-ri-ia-nu, short form nu-ri-ia (DULAT 634)
- Eblaitesu-nu-ri₂ šū-nūrīsu-nu-ri₂ šū-nūrī ‘he is my light’ (Pagan 1998, row 4282)
- AmoriteNU-RA nūram (Gelb no. 5085)