# A-DU-NI-TA-NA (ʾAddu-nittāna)

> given by Addu (compound theophoric PN)

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ʾAddu-nittāna
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*hadad-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3186/index.md>) 'thunder' + [\*ytn ~ \*ntn](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2608/index.md>) 'give'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · DU (du) · NI (ni) · TA (ta) · NA (na)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: nadānu N innadin 'was given'; active names Adad-iddinam, Bēl-ittannu
- Amorite: *yantin-DN* — yantin-DN 'DN gave' (active prefix conjugation; Gelb AS 21)
- Ugaritic: ʾadd (storm god name element)
- Hebrew: נָתַן *nātan* — nātan (נָתַן) 'he gave'; Niphal nittan (נִתַּן) 'was given'

## Attestations

- [ARKH 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH5/index.md>): A-DU-NI-TA-NA 41 — personal name ('given by Addu')

## Commentary

ARKH 5 A-DU-NI-TA-NA 41, before A-DA-RO GRA 40 and *131B 6: a named recipient and its quantity, in the Arkhanes ration format of ARKH 2 and ARKH 3a, which also list *131B must. A-DU, Addu the storm god, + NI-TA-NA nittāna, N-stem perfect of √n-t-n 'to give', from *nintan: 'given by Addu'. Both elements stand elsewhere: A-DU heads the HT 88 register and detaches as a theophoric prefix on ZA 10a (A-DU-KU-MI-NA beside A-KU-MI-NA), and √n-t-n underlies NA-TU-*301-NE (SKO Zc 1). Names of god and verb: Akk. Adad-iddinam and Iddin-Dagan, of the type DN-iddin(am) (CAD N/1 49), Mari Yantin-Addu (ARM 26/1, 602), Amorite Yantin-Haddu (Gelb 1980, nos. 2990, 2992). Weak point: West Semitic Adda-natan (SAA 14 014) has the G perfect natan, which the NI- spelling does not fit. One attestation.

## Same root

- [A-DU \*307+\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU~20*307~2B*307/index.md>) (Addu dubur-dubur)
- [JE-TA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JE-TA-NA/index.md>) (Yatana)
- [A-DU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU/index.md>) (ʾAddu / adû)
- [A-TA-NA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-NA-TE/index.md>) (ʾAtanat)
- [NA-TU-\*301-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NA-TU-*301-NE/index.md>) (natūnān)
- [MA-TI-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-TI-TI/index.md>) (mattitt(u))
- [A-TA-NA-JE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-NA-JE/index.md>) (ʾatanāya)
- [A-DU-KU-MI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU-KU-MI-NA/index.md>) (ʾAddu-kumina)
- [I-TI-NI-SA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-TI-NI-SA/index.md>) (ʾItniša)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-DU-NI-TA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-DU-NI-TA-NA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- CAD N/1: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1980), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 11, N, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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