Personal name · Semitic
KI-NU
personal name, 'the True One' (kīnu 'true, reliable')
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- Kīnu
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- Personal name Candidate
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- Semitic Candidate
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- KI-NU
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry KI-NU.
- Eblaitegi-num kīnumgi-num kīnum ‘reliable’, a name (Pagan 1998, row 2059); names gi-na, gi-núm (GlOS 1, 332)
- Amoritekīnumkīnum ‘firm’ (Gelb 1980, glossary); names ki-nu-um-a-da-al, la-ki-nu (GlOS 1, 332)
- Akkadiankīnukīnu ‘true, reliable, just’ (CAD K 391–394); kânu ‘to be firm, true’; PN element in Nabû-kīn-apli, Marduk-kīn-šumi
- Hebrewכּוּןkūnkūn (כּוּן) ‘to be established, firm’; nākōn (נָכוֹן) ‘right, true’
- Ugaritic𐎋𐎆𐎐kwnkwn ‘to be, exist’