- Reading
- ʾAddu / adû
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- *hadad- ‘thunder’
- Kind
- Divine
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- #85 of the top 100
Compared forms
- Ugaritic𐎅𐎄hdhd(d) ‘Haddu (Hadad), storm god, byname of Baal’
- AkkadianAdadAdad (OB Addu) ‘storm god’; adû ‘a (day’s) work, stint’
- AmoriteHaddu/Addu as a divine name and theophoric element (Huffmon; Howard)
- HebrewהֲדַדHădadHădad (הֲדַד) ‘Hadad’ in names: Ben-Hadad, Hadadezer ‘Hadad is help’
Attestations8 cited
- HT 1333DA-DU TE GRA+DA 55Storm God (Hadad/Baal)
- HT 85a3DA-DU *307+*307 VIR+[?]Storm god; rival adû 'work assignment'
- HT 86a3DA-DUStorm God (= Hadad/Baal, section 2 heading); rival adû 'work assignment'
- HT 883DA-DU VIR+KA 20Addu, the heading; rival adû 'work assignment'
- HT 92A-DU GRA 680Storm God or work-stint/account heading
- HT 95b3DA-DUStorm God (= Hadad/Baal)—heading/recipient; rival adû 'work assignment'
- HT 99aA-DUAddu/Haddu, initial heading; rival adû 'work assignment'
- KH 23A-DU
Commentary
A-DU occurs in 8 documents at two sites, regularly in initial or heading position: a heading or an entity. Gordon’s Addu/Haddu (Gordon 1966 §129): the spelling fits Old Babylonian Amorite and Akkadian Addu without initial h, and second-millennium syllabic forms such as eḫ-li-a-du keep the divine element (Howard 2023, 5). Ebla has ʾa₃-du, the DN Ḫaddu as a personal name (Pagan 1998, row 27). HT 92 places A-DU between TE and the commodities, the slot of a named recipient such as Addu. Rival: Akk. adû ‘work quota per man-day, work assignment’ (CAD A/1 135), which fits allocation and roster contexts. HT 95b sets A-DU over the items HT 86a divides between A-KA-RU and A-DU. Weak point: one reading must serve all eight headings, and only HT 85a, with *307+*307, selects the god. See A-DU *307+*307, A-DU-NI-TA-NA and A-DU-KU-MI-NA.