Personal name · Semitic

A-DU-KU-MI-NA

Addu has sheltered (compound theophoric PN)

Reading: ʾAddu-kumina
Type: Personal name Speculative
Language: Semitic Speculative
Sites: Zakros
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: A-DU-KU-MI-NA

Commentary

A-DU (Addu) + √k-m-n ‘hide, shelter’ (HALOT 481; Amorite Ka-mi-nu-um, Gelb 1980, no. 3970), built like A-DU-NI-TA-NA ‘Addu has given’. Beside A-KU-MI-NA from the same verb on ZA 10a.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry A-DU-KU-MI-NA.

AmoriteKMN verbal root in names: Ka-mi-nu-um (Gelb 1980, no. 3970), Ia-ak-me-ni Yakmin- (no. 2909)
Hebrewכמןhiphilכמן hiphil ‘to hide’ (Mishnaic; HALOT 481); cf. צְפַנְיָה Ṣəpanyāh ‘Yahweh has hidden’ (HALOT 1049)
Aramaickmnkmn ‘to hide oneself, lie in wait’; Christian Palestinian kymn ‘ambush’ (HALOT 481)
Arabickamana (HALOT 481)