A-DA-*21F-RI

the Charioteer (PN, √d-h-r 'dash, gallop'; *21F = ha)

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Reading
ha-dāhari
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*dVhVr- ‘dash, gallop’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewdāhardāhar ‘to dash, gallop’ (of a horse), Nah 3:2; dahărâ ‘galloping’, Judg 5:22 (HALOT 214)
  • Arabicdahara VIIdahara VII ‘to hurry’ (HALOT 214)
  • Egyptiantwhrtwhr ‘(foreign) warrior’ (AED lemma 173060; Wb 5, 322.10–14), a loan of Canaanite dhr, ‘charioteer’ (HALOT 214)

Attestations1 cited

  1. KH 92A-DA-*21F-RI KU-NI-TE 10[

Commentary

KH 92 .1 A-DA-*21F-RI · KU-NI-TE 10[, a personal name at the head of an allocation list. ha-dāhari ‘the Charioteer’: Hebrew dāhar ‘to dash, gallop’ of a horse (Nah 3:2), dahărâ ‘galloping’ (Judg 5:22; HALOT 214). Egypt borrowed the word for the chariot warrior, twhr (AED lemma 173060). Albright’s Canaanite source of Eg. tuhira ‘charioteer’ is *dōhar < *dāhar (HALOT 214), the a that *21F writes. Rival: Arabic dahr ‘time, fate, epoch’, which has no cognate of that sense in Hebrew, Ugaritic or Akkadian. A- is the article on the title, as in Heb. Hallôḥēš (Neh 3:12) and Hassōperet (Ezra 2:55). Weak point: no Semitic name from the root is attested. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon