One-word
names also have certain characteristics. As is well known, animal and plant
names, frequent in Semitic onomastics, are virtually always one-word names.
Also common with one-word names are terms concerning bodily and mental
qualities ascribed to the name bearer. (Herbert Bardwell Huffmon, Amorite
Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study [Baltimore,
Md.: The John Hopkins Press, 1965], 141)
