Personal name · Semitic
U-MI-NA-SI
My mother is chief/exalted (sentence name)
- Reading
- Ummī-naśiʾ
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 2
- Lexicon
- U-MI-NA-SI
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry U-MI-NA-SI.
- Ugaritic ʾumUgaritic ʾum "mother", našaʾa "to lift, raise"; Hebrew nāśīʾ (Gen 23:6 nəśîʾ ʾĕlōhīm); Amorite mother-element in Ummum-ka-abī (Gelb AS 21 nos. 6246–7, FN) and Našiʾ name element (NIQM-I·LA·NAŠIʾ, no. 5051); ʾummī + predicate in ʾUmmī-ʾilī, UM-MI-I₂-LI₂ (no. 6231), a woman’s name, as are all of Gelb’s ʾUMM-I names; Ebla na-si-um, Amorite ia-aḫ-wi-na-si (GlOS 2, 106); = *301-SI nāśī (PROBABLE)