CUMENI: Difference between revisions

From Book of Mormon Onomasticon
Jump to navigationJump to search
mNo edit summary
No edit summary
 
(7 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
|'''[[:Category:Lehite PN|Lehite PN]]'''
|'''[[:Category:Jaredite PN|Jaredite PN]]'''
|1. Nephite City
|1.
|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])
|King ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/56.14?lang=eng#12 Alma 56:14]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/57.7,%208,%2012,%2023,%2031,%2034?lang=eng#6 57:7, 8, 12, 23, 31, 34])
|}
|}


'''Etymology'''
'''Etymology'''


Until possible language affinities for [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] names can be determined, all suggestions for etymologies of [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] names must remain more speculative than substantive. With that caveat, the onomasticon does offer etymologies for some [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] names, especially if it is possible that some [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] names were translated into [[NEPHITE(S)|N<small>EPHITE</small>]], or were otherwise related to one or more Semitic languages.
It is possible that this is also a personal name because of the fairly common N<small>EPHITE</small> combination of the [[Personal Name|PN]] ending in "-i" with its suffixed [[Personal Name|PN]] counterpart ending in "-ihah," where both are [[Personal Name|PN]]s, 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 have a translation "Hidden-away." Less likely is the Hebrew כמן ''kammōn'', meaning "cumin," giving the translation, "[Place of] Cumin," or reading with a gentilic ending, "[The One of ] Cumin."


If Sumerian can provide [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]] patterns, then perhaps the Sumerian [[Personal Name|PN]] ''kurum'', king of Uruk (biblical Erech) Dynasty 4 might be a parallel ([[Robert F. Smith|RFS]]). Sumerian ''kur'' means
The Lehite [[Geographical Name|GN]] '''C<small>UMENI</small>''' may contain the J<small>AREDITE</small> element ''kumen/cumen''. Alternatively, if it does not contain the Jaredite element ''kumen/cumen'', it may be related to the E<small>GYPTIAN</small> ''cumeni'' elements in the Book of Mormon [[Personal Name|PN]] Pacumeni, but without the later Egyptian demostrative-definite article ''p3'', for example, ''p3-kwmni'',<ref>[[Robert F. Smith]], ''Egyptianisms in the Book of Mormon'', 36-37.</ref> and the name of the Egyptian hero name Pacumeni, but without the "Pa." Further, see the entry under Pacumeni.
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
Other possibilities include Egyptian ''kmn'', "blind one" ([[Edward H. Ashment|EHA]]); Egyptian ''k3-mn'', "the Bull is established" (Coptic ''kemēn''), a place near Ihnasya in central Egypt ([[Robert F. Smith|RFS]]); and the Akkadian ''kummu'', "holy place, shrine, sanctuary" ([[Robert F. Smith|RFS]]).
of the pilot of the ark in the Mesopotamian flood story, ''kurgal'' ([[Robert F. Smith|RFS]]).


Cf. Book of Mormon [[CORIHOR|C<small>ORIHOR</small>]], [[KORIHOR|K<small>ORIHOR</small>]]
Cf. Book of Mormon [[KUMEN]], [[KISHKUMEN]], [[KUMENONHI]], [[CUMENIHAH]]
 
<i></i>*([[Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now the Community of Christ)|RLDS]] has Corum in one place)


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


'''[[Deseret Alphabet]]:''' 𐐗𐐆𐐅𐐣𐐀𐐤𐐌 (kɪuːmiːnaɪ)
'''[[Deseret Alphabet]]:''' 𐐗𐐆𐐅𐐣𐐀𐐤𐐌 (kɪuːmiːnaɪ)
Line 28: Line 22:
'''Notes'''
'''Notes'''
----
----
<references />
[[Category:Names]][[Category:Jaredite PN]]
[[Category:Names]][[Category:Jaredite PN]]


Latest revision as of 04:16, 9 July 2023

Jaredite PN 1. King (Alma 56:14; 57:7, 8, 12, 23, 31, 34)

Etymology

It is possible that this is also a personal name because of the fairly common NEPHITE combination of the PN ending in "-i" with its suffixed PN counterpart ending in "-ihah," 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 have a translation "Hidden-away." Less likely is the Hebrew כמן kammōn, meaning "cumin," giving the translation, "[Place of] Cumin," or reading with a gentilic ending, "[The One of ] Cumin."

The Lehite GN CUMENI may contain the JAREDITE element kumen/cumen. Alternatively, if it does not contain the Jaredite element kumen/cumen, it may be related to the EGYPTIAN cumeni elements in the Book of Mormon PN Pacumeni, but without the later Egyptian demostrative-definite article p3, for example, p3-kwmni,[1] and the name of the Egyptian hero name Pacumeni, but without the "Pa." Further, see the entry under Pacumeni.

Other possibilities include Egyptian kmn, "blind one" (EHA); Egyptian k3-mn, "the Bull is established" (Coptic kemēn), a place near Ihnasya in central Egypt (RFS); and the Akkadian kummu, "holy place, shrine, sanctuary" (RFS).

Cf. Book of Mormon KUMEN, KISHKUMEN, KUMENONHI, CUMENIHAH

Variants

Deseret Alphabet: 𐐗𐐆𐐅𐐣𐐀𐐤𐐌 (kɪuːmiːnaɪ)

Notes

  1. ↑ Robert F. Smith, Egyptianisms in the Book of Mormon, 36-37.
<< Cumeni >>

Name Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Retrieved from "https://onoma.lib.byu.edu/index.php?title=CUMENI&oldid=13796"