Title · Semitic
NU-WI
steppe-dweller, (man) of the encampment—qualifier after a personal name
- Reading
- nōwē
- Type
- Title Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 2
- Lexicon
- NU-WI
Commentary
Qualifier after a personal name: HT115a RI-TA-MA / NU-WI 2; HT115b TI-NU-JA · NU-WI · GRA ½. See lexicon NU-WI.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry NU-WI.
- AmoriteNW *naw(u)-, *nawiy- ‘steppe; encampment (man and beast)’; Mari nawûm, feminine (Huffmon APNM p. 237); BU-NU-NA-WI-E (Gelb 1980, no. 1342)
- Akkadian (Ugarit, Alalakh)LÚ na-mu-úLÚ na-mu-ú ‘steppe-dweller’ (Ugarit), ERÍN.MEŠ na-me-e (Alalakh IV), personnel terms (GlOS 2, 116)
- Hebrewנָוֶהnāwehנָוֶה nāweh ‘pasture, abode’; construct נְוֵה nᵊwēh, as נְוֵה רֹעִים ‘abode of shepherds’ (Jer 33:12)
- Akkadiannawû / namû ‘pasturage; flocks; steppe’ (ORACC CAMS/GKAB)
- Sabaicnwynwy ‘watering place; channel’ (Biella 1982: 297)
- Safaiticnwynwy ‘migrating’, ptc. G (KRS 1949; Al-Jallad 2026, 107)