Personal name · Semitic
WI-TE-JA-MU
Beloved of the Deep (title or name)
- Reading
- Widd-tiyāmu
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
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- Platanos
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- Lexicon
- WI-TE-JA-MU
Commentary
widd ‘love’ + ti(h)āmu ‘the Deep’ (Ug. thm). Sign dispute: GORILA reads WI and MU, both doubtful; a second reading takes the fourth sign as RU.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry WI-TE-JA-MU.
- Arabicwiddwidd ‘love’ (Lane 2931); names of wdd + a god: wddʾl, wddʿm (Harding 1971, 637)
- Ugaritic𐎚𐎅𐎎thmthm ‘ocean’, thmt ‘Primordial Ocean’ (DULAT 851); ydd il ġzr ‘beloved of El, the hero’ (DULAT 943)
- Hebrewtəhômtəhôm ‘the Deep’ (HALOT 1689)
- Akkadiantâmtu, tiāmtu ‘sea’; Tiāmat (CAD T 150)
- EblaiteAB.A = ti-ʔà-ma-tum tihāmat ‘sea’ (GlOS 2, 292)