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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]) | |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]) | ||
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'''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'',” | 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'',” | ||
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See also [[Cumeni Variant]] | See also [[Cumeni Variant]] | ||
'''Variants''' | |||
[[Cumeni Variant|Cumena]] | |||
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[[Category:Names]][[Category:Lehite GN]] | [[Category:Names]][[Category:Lehite GN]] | ||
Revision as of 14:27, 7 June 2012
| Lehite GN | 1. | City, ca. 65 BC (Alma 56:14; 57:34) |
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 “-hah,” 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 (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, Judges 10:5 (RFS); Akkadian kummanu, name of neoHittite kingdom of Tabalian Confederation, ca. 900 BC, near sites of kummuḫi and gurgum (RFS); Akkadian (?) kummanni (Classical Camana Cappadiciae), a religious center/city during the time of King Azzi-Hayasa (?—ee Roux) (RFS); and Hittite kamanas, prince of Carchemish ca. 750 BC (RFS).
Other possibilities include EGYPTIAN kmn, “blind one” (EHA); EGYPTIAN k3mn, “the Bull is established” (Coptic kemēn), a place near Ihnasya in central EGYPT (RFS); and Akkadian kummu, “holy place, shrine, sanctuary” (RFS).
Cf. Book of Mormon KUMEN, KISHKUMEN, KUMENONHI, CUMENIHAH
See also Cumeni Variant
Variants
Deseret Alphabet:
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