# \*nwy 'pasture land, grazing place' 1, 'abode, settlement' 2, 'to betake oneself to an abode' 3

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: pasture, abode; to dwell
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/n/3654_pasture_land_grazing_place_1_abode_settlement_2.md

## In Linear A

- [\*301](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*301/index.md>) (nawā): pastureland, pastoral product (commodity logogram: nawum in administrative register, nawā in ritual/general)
- [A-TA-I-\*301-WA-E](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-I-*301-WA-E/index.md>) (ʾatainawē): I make myself a dwelling (Palaikastro dialect variant, 1cs tG-stem middle-reflexive of √NWY)
- [A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA/index.md>) (ʾatainawaya): I make myself a dwelling (1cs tG-stem middle-reflexive denominative of √NWY)
- [I-NA-WA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-WA/index.md>) (ʾi-nawā): the dwelling, abode (sanctuary as divine habitation)
- [NU-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NU-WI/index.md>) (nōwē): steppe-dweller, (man) of the encampment—qualifier after a personal name

## Notes

HALOT 678 traces nāweh from 'destination point (of semi-nomadic tribes)', Arabic nawan, niyyat 'destination', to 'pasture' and 'settlement'. Streck 2000, 108 leaves open whether Mari nawū is Akkadian or an Amorite loan; Sanmartín GlOS 2, 116 calls |n-w-y| a culture word. Targum Onqelos renders nāweh by dyrʾ (Exod 15:13) and wəʾanwēhû (Exod 15:2) by wəʾebnē leh maqdəšāʾ 'and I will build Him a sanctuary'; the Palestinian Targums and the Peshitta read 'praise'. At Mari the Simʾalites swore by the gods of the nawûm (Streck 2004, 424).

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: namû A (nawû) 1 (CAD N/1 249); lexical na-mu-ú = ālu 2 (MŠ); ERÍN.MEŠ na-me(-e) at Alalakh, LÚ na-mu-ú, LÚ.MEŠ na-mu-ti at Ugarit (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 116) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: nāweh 1, 2 (HALOT 678); of YHWH 2: nəwēh qodšekā (Exod 15:13), nāwēhû (Jer 25:30; Ps 79:7); yinweh (Hab 2:5) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: nawū 1, in names: Tagīd-nawū, ta-nu-uḫ-na-wu-um (Streck 2000, 108, 140; Sanmartín GlOS 2, 116) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: nwytʾ 1 (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 116) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: nwy n.f. 1 (CAL s.v. nwy) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic nw 3; nwy 1; nwy, nwʾ 3; ptc. nwy 3, KRS 1949 (Al-Jallad 2026, 107) (gloss withheld)
- Arabic: nawā 'to intend, aim at'; intawā (VIII) 'to repair to a place of abode' 3; nawan 'destination of a journey' (Lane 3040)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab nwy (Biella 297); nwyt (SD 101) (gloss withheld)

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