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|'''[[:Category:Lehite GN|Lehite GN]]'''
|'''[[:Category:Jaredite PN|Jaredite PN]]'''
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|City, ca. 65 BC ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/56/14#14 Alma 56:14]; [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/57/34#34 57:34])
|King ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/56.13?lang=eng#12 Alma 56:13]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/57.7,%208,%2012,%2023,%2031,%2034?lang=eng#6 57:7, 8, 12, 23, 31, 34])
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'''Etymology'''
'''Etymology'''


It is possible that this is also a personal name because of the fairly common [[NEPHITE(S)|N<small>EPHITE</small>]] combination of the PN ending in “-''i''” with its suffixed PN counterpart ending in “-''hah'',”
No etymology is suggested.
where both are PNs, and because some places were named after the first person who settled there.* Several North-west Semitic etymologies are possible, though none of
them are convincing. Hebrew ''kmn'', meaning “to hide, to hide up,” might give a translation “Hidden-away.” Cf. also the Ugaritic PNs ''kmn'' and ''bn kmn'', etymology unknown
([[Jo Ann Hackett|JH]]). Less likely is the common Semitic vocabel ''kam''(''m'')''ō''/''ūn*'', from which we get our English word “cumin,” giving the translation, “(Place of) Cumin,” or reading with a
gentilic ending, “(The One of) Cumin.”


Cf. also these ancient Near Eastern names: ''gāmôn'', a city in [[GILEAD|G<small>ILEAD</small>]], [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/judg/10/5#5 Judges 10:5] ([[Robert F. Smith|RFS]]); Akkadian ''kummanu'', name of neoHittite kingdom of Tabalian Confederation, ca. 900 BC,
If Sumerian can provide [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] patterns, then perhaps the Sumerian PN ''kurum'', king of Uruk (biblical Erech) Dynasty 4 might be a parallel (RFS). Sumerian ''kur'' means
near sites of ''kummuḫi'' and ''gurgum'' ([[Robert F. Smith|RFS]]); Akkadian (?) ''kummanni'' (Classical Camana Cappadiciae), a religious center/city during the time of King Azzi-Hayasa (?—ee Roux)
mountain.  
(RFS); and Hittite ''kamanas'', prince of Carchemish ca. 750 BC ([[Robert F. Smith|RFS]]).


Other possibilities include [[EGYPTIAN(S)|E<small>GYPTIAN</small>]] ''kmn'', “blind one” (EHA); [[EGYPTIAN(S)|E<small>GYPTIAN</small>]] ''k3mn'', “the Bull is established” (Coptic kemēn), a place near Ihnasya in central [[EGYPT|E<small>GYPT</small>]] ([[Robert F. Smith|RFS]]); and Akkadian
Cf. Akkadian ''kurum'' III, “Ein Stück von Stemme” or Sumerian ''kurum'', ''kur'', “cut, divide, judge, pass sentence” and ''kur'', “great, mountain, land” which appears in the name
''kummu'', “holy place, shrine, sanctuary” ([[Robert F. Smith|RFS]]).
of the pilot of the ark in the Mesopotamian flood story, ''kurgal'' (RFS).


Cf. Book of Mormon [[KUMEN|K<small>UMEN</small>]], [[KISHKUMEN|K<small>ISHKUMEN</small>]], [[KUMENONHI|K<small>UMENONHI</small>]], [[CUMENIHAH|C<small>UMENIHAH</small>]]
Cf. Book of Mormon [[CORIHOR|C<small>ORIHOR</small>]], [[KORIHOR|K<small>ORIHOR</small>]]


See also [[Cumeni Variant]]
*(RLDS has Corum in one place)


'''Variants'''
'''Variants'''
[[Cumeni Variant|Cumena]]


'''Deseret Alphabet:'''
'''Deseret Alphabet:'''
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'''Notes'''
'''Notes'''
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[[Category:Names]][[Category:Lehite GN]]
[[Category:Names]][[Category:Jaredite PN]]

Revision as of 13:27, 12 July 2012

Jaredite PN 1. King (Alma 56:13; 57:7, 8, 12, 23, 31, 34)

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Etymology

No etymology is suggested.

If Sumerian can provide JAREDITE patterns, then perhaps the Sumerian PN kurum, king of Uruk (biblical Erech) Dynasty 4 might be a parallel (RFS). Sumerian kur means mountain.

Cf. Akkadian kurum III, “Ein Stück von Stemme” or Sumerian kurum, kur, “cut, divide, judge, pass sentence” and kur, “great, mountain, land” which appears in the name of the pilot of the ark in the Mesopotamian flood story, kurgal (RFS).

Cf. Book of Mormon CORIHOR, KORIHOR

  • (RLDS has Corum in one place)

Variants

Deseret Alphabet:

Notes

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