A-MI-DA-U

My kinsman knows (sentence name)

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Reading
ʿAmmī-dāʿ(u)
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ʕamm- ‘relative’ 1, ‘uncle’ 2, ‘ancestor’ 3 + *ydʕ ‘know’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

  • Eblaiteʿamm-ī-ʾIlʿamm-ī-ʾIl ‘ʾIl is my uncle’; yādaʿ-ʾabu ‘father knows’ (Pagan 1998, rows 718, 538)
  • Amoritenoun-ī + dāʿ: Śamī-dāʿum, Śamšī-dāʿī; Yadaʿ-ʿammu (Gelb 1980, nos. 5450, 6272, 3172)

Attestations1 cited

  1. ZA 10aA-MI-DA-U 1My kinsman knows (Amorite sentence name)

Commentary

ZA 10a: among personal names, quantity 1. A sentence name, ʿammī ‘my kinsman’, a divine epithet, with dāʿ (√y-d-ʿ ‘know’): ʿAmmī-dāʿ ‘My kinsman knows’. ʿammī- opens ʿAmmîšaddāy (Num 1:12) and ʿAmmînādāb (Exod 6:23); -dāʿ closes ʾĂbîdāʿ and ʾEldāʿā (Gen 25:4) and ʾElyādāʿ (2 Sam 5:16). The abī-/aḫī-/ʿammī- rotation on one base (Abinadab, Ahinadab 1 Kgs 4:14, Amminadab) sets ʿAmmī-dāʿ beside the attested ʾĂbîdāʿ. Initial ʿa- is written A. Howard tabulates the ʿAmmī + verb sentence name (ʿAmmi-yepuʿ, kings of Talhayum, at Mari, Terqa and Šeḥna), with ʾIli-yepaʿ at Alalah rotating the first element (Howard 2023, appendix). A-MI-DA-O (PH(?) 31b.5) is broken at the start, ]A-MI-DA-O (GORILA I 319). Rival: a Hurrian name (cf. MI-TA). Cf. JA-DA-SU (Yadaʿ-Šum), from the same verb. One attestation. See *306+MI.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon