Personal name · Semitic
A-MA-JA
(Little) kinsman (personal name, hypocoristic); rival ʾAmaya 'maidservant'
- Reading
- ʿAmmaya
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Khania
- Attestations
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- Lexicon
- A-MA-JA
Commentary
KH 14 .1 ]RA · A-MA-JA · CYP 6[, whole between dividers (GORILA III 45). A-MA ʿamma ‘kinsman’ + -ya: the Ugaritic name ʿmy ʿAmmaya (KTU 4.16:4), syllabic am-ma-ya (DULAT 164). Rival: ʾAmaya ‘maidservant’.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry A-MA-JA.