Kogan 2015: 340-341: An Akkadian loanword in Ugaritic postulated in Pardee 1988:115 is quite likely. M. Bulakh (2005a:196‒198) suggests, nevertheless, that the Akkadian and Ugaritic terms are rather related as cognates and go back to PS *nmr ‘to be brilliant,’ presumably attested also in Arb. namir-, namīr- ‘pure, clean’.