Personal name · Semitic
DA-U-*49
the enduring one (personal name)
- Reading
- dawmi
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- DA-U-MI
Commentary
Retained candidate Dawmi, ‘the enduring one.’ The reading depends on syllabic *49=/mi/ and U≈/w/. Official *49 semantics remain PALM/TREE, with TAMIR its candidate Semitic lexical name; DA-U-PALM/TREE remains an unresolved alternative.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry DA-U-MI.
- Arabicdāma, inf. n. dawm ‘it continued, lasted, endured’ (Lane 935)