God or goddess · Semitic

JA-I-NWA-RO

O Radiant One (vocative + elative of √n-w-r 'light'), divine epithet

Reading
yā ʾanwaru
Type
God or goddess Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Syme
Attestations
1
Lexicon
JA-I-NWA-RO

Commentary

SY Za 4. See the lexicon entry. One witness.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry JA-I-NWA-RO.

  • Arabicʾanwaruʾanwaru ‘lighter, brighter’, hāḏā ʾanwaru min ḏāka ‘this is brighter than that’ (Lane 2866)
  • AmoriteNWR ‘shine’: janūr, nawarum, Nawar (Gelb AS 21, 28)
  • Akkadiannamru, older nawru ‘bright, shiny, brilliant’ (CAD N/1 239)
  • Ugariticn-r/n-r/ ‘to shine’; nr ‘sheen, gleam’ (DULAT 633)
Linear A Lexicon