Personal name · Semitic

TO-MA-RO

personal name, 'palm'

Reading
Tōmar
Type
Personal name Candidate
Language
Semitic Candidate
Sites
Kophinas (?)
Attestations
1
Lexicon
TO-MA-RO

Commentary

KO(?) Zf 2, a bronze bowl, inside the undivided sequence A-RA-KO-KU-QA-WA-SA-TO-MA-RO-AU-TA-DE-PO-NI-ZA: a palm name, Amorite Tamar-u (Gelb 1980, no. 6027), Ugaritic tmr, Hebrew Tāmār. See the lexicon entry. One witness.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry TO-MA-RO.

  • AmoriteTAMAR-U /ta-ma-ru/, a one-element personal name; also ŠUM-U*TAMAR and ŠUM-U*TAMAR-U (Gelb 1980, nos. 6027, 5716, 5715)
  • Hebrewtōmer תֹּמֶר masculine palm (Judges 4:5, the Palm of Deborah) / tāmār תָּמָר feminine name
  • Ugaritictamarusyllabic /tamaru/ ‘date palm’ proposed for Ug. 5 137 (Huehnergard 2008, nos. 175, TMR); tmr, a personal name (GlOS 2, 298)
  • Mariqí-iš-ti-ᵈta-ma-ru Qišti-Tamaru, with the DN Tamaru (GlOS 2, 298)
Linear A Lexicon