# A-DU (ʾAddu / adû)

> Addu/Haddu (heading); rival adû 'work stint'

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

- Reading: ʾAddu / adû
- 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'
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · DU (du)
- Rank: #85 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎅𐎄 *hd* — hd(d) 'Haddu (Hadad), storm god, byname of Baal'
- Akkadian: *Adad* — Adad (OB Addu) 'storm god'; adû 'a (day's) work, stint'
- Amorite: Haddu/Addu as a divine name and theophoric element (Huffmon; Howard)
- Hebrew: הֲדַד *Hădad* — Hădad (הֲדַד) 'Hadad' in names: Ben-Hadad, Hadadezer 'Hadad is help'

## Attestations

- [HT 133](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT133/index.md>): A-DU TE GRA+DA 55 — Storm God (Hadad/Baal)
- [HT 85a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85a/index.md>): A-DU \*307+\*307 VIR+\[?\] — Storm god; rival adû 'work assignment'
- [HT 86a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT86a/index.md>): A-DU — Storm God (= Hadad/Baal, section 2 heading); rival adû 'work assignment'
- [HT 88](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT88/index.md>): A-DU VIR+KA 20 — Addu, the heading; rival adû 'work assignment'
- [HT 92](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT92/index.md>): A-DU GRA 680 — Storm God or work-stint/account heading
- [HT 95b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT95b/index.md>): A-DU — Storm God (= Hadad/Baal)—heading/recipient; rival adû 'work assignment'
- [HT 99a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT99a/index.md>): A-DU — Addu/Haddu, initial heading; rival adû 'work assignment'
- [KH 23](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH23/index.md>): A-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.

## Same root

- [A-DU \*307+\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU~20*307~2B*307/index.md>) (Addu dubur-dubur)
- [A-DU-NI-TA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU-NI-TA-NA/index.md>) (ʾAddu-nittāna)
- [A-DU-KU-MI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU-KU-MI-NA/index.md>) (ʾAddu-kumina)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-DU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-DU/index.md>): God or goddess, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gordon 1966; Howard 2023; Pagan 1998; CAD A/1
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- Howard, J. Caleb (2023), Amorite Names through Time and Space. Journal of Semitic Studies,68.1,Oxford University Press,19–67
- CAD A/1: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1964), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. A/1. Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)

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