Personal name · Semitic

QA-MI-*47-NA-RA

personal name, 'who stands: He is fire'

Reading
Qāmī-šū-nāra
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Knossos
Attestations
1

Commentary

KN Zf 31, a silver pin, among the man’s names in the first line. Amorite Qawmī-ʾIl (Gelb 1980, no. 1743); the Ebla type šū-X ‘he is X’ (Pagan 1998).

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry QA-MI-*47-NA-RA.

  • AmoriteQWMQWM ‘to stand’; GA-MI-DINGIR Qawmī-ʾIl (Gelb 1980, no. 1743)
  • Eblaiticšū-Xšū-X ‘he is X’: šū-ʾabu ‘he is father’, šū-nūrī ‘he is my light’ (Pagan 1998, rows 4265–4285)
  • Arabicnār-nār- ‘fire’ beside nūr- ‘light’ (Kogan 2011, 195)
Linear A Lexicon