Personal name · Semitic
SI-RU
shade, protection (personal-name element)
- Reading
- ṣillu
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- SI-RU
Commentary
Name on the HT 55a list after ]KỊ-RỌ ·, each entry with 1 (GORILA I 107). Cf. Amorite ṣill- ‘shade, protection’ (Huffmon, APNM 257): Ṣillī-Baʿli (APNM 58), Ṣill-Haddu, Ṣillān (Gelb, AS 21); Hebrew ṣēl ‘shade’ and the name Ṣillāh (Gen 4:19); Ugaritic ẓl /ẓillu/ ‘shade’ (Huehnergard 2012). HT 90 SI-RU-MA-RI-TA₂, one word, fits the same ‘Shade of DN’ type.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry SI-RU.
- Amoriteṣill-ṣill- ‘shade, protection’ (Huffmon, APNM 257); Ṣillī-Baʿli, Ṣill-Haddu
- Hebrewצֵלṣēlṣēl (צֵל) ‘shade’ (HALOT 1024); Ṣillāh (HALOT 1025)
- Ugariticẓilluẓl /ẓillu/ ‘shade’ (Huehnergard 2012)