Personal name · Semitic
A-RE-TU-MI
Earth is my mother (NWS theophoric compound PN; pre-Greek Artemis)
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- ʾarṣ̂-ummī
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
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- Zakros
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- A-RE-TU-MI
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry A-RE-TU-MI.
- Hebrewאֶרֶץʾereṣʾereṣ (אֶרֶץ) ‘earth, land’; ʾēm (אֵם) ‘mother’
- Ugaritic𐎀𐎗𐎕ʾarṣʾarṣ ‘earth’; ủm ‘mother’ (DULAT 67); X-ummī name Anati-umme, RS 14.16:7 (Kinlaw 1967, 24)
- Akkadianerṣetuerṣetu ‘earth’; ummu ‘mother’
- GreekἌρτεμις (Artemis)—widely agreed pre-Greek; no convincing Greek etymology
- LydianArtimuś (dat. artimuλ)—u after the m, not in TU’s slot; Aramaic (Letoon) ʾrtmwš likewise
- Linear Ba-te-mi-to (PY Es 650, genitive)—drops pre-consonantal /r/ per standard LB orthography
- EtruscanArtumes (oldest), Artam[e]s, Aritimi, gen. Artmsl (Nielsen & Rathje 2009: 261–262)—u before the m, as in TU-MI; Cristofani’s cited Aretume unverified