Personal name · Semitic

SI-MA

šima 'name of' (common noun in construct); also the personal name Šima, Shem, 'Name, Renown'

Reading
Šima
Type
Personal name Candidate
Language
Semitic Candidate
Sites
Phaistos
Attestations
1
Lexicon
SI-MA

Commentary

PH Zb 4 SI-MA 𐄁 I-JA-TE, on a clay vessel: šima ʾiyyate ‘name of the island’, the common noun in construct. Or the name Šima, Shem, a person named on a commodity vessel as DI-NA-U on KN Zb 27; Amorite ŠU-MU-UM Šumum (Gelb 1980, no. 5941). See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry SI-MA.

  • Hebrewשֵׁםšēmšēm (שֵׁם) "name, renown" (BDB 1027); personal name Shem (Gen 5:32)
  • Ugaritic𐎌𐎎šmšm "name"
  • Akkadianšumušumu "name, offspring, progeny" (CAD Š/III 281); Amorite PN element: Sumu-abum "Progeny of the Father" (founder of 1st Dynasty of Babylon, c. 1894 BCE), Sumu-la-El "Progeny of God"
  • Phoenician𐤔𐤌šmšm "name" (KAI)
  • Arabicismism "name"
Linear A Lexicon