# A-MI-DA-U (ʿAmmī-dāʿ(u))

> My kinsman knows (sentence name)

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

- Reading: ʿAmmī-dāʿ(u)
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʕamm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/44/index.md>) 'relative' 1, 'uncle' 2, 'ancestor' 3 + [\*ydʕ](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2500/index.md>) 'know'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · MI (mi) · DA (da) · U (u)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Eblaite: *ʿamm-ī-ʾIl* — ʿamm-ī-ʾIl 'ʾIl is my uncle'; yādaʿ-ʾabu 'father knows' (Pagan 1998, rows 718, 538)
- Amorite: noun-ī + dāʿ: Śamī-dāʿum, Śamšī-dāʿī; Yadaʿ-ʿammu (Gelb 1980, nos. 5450, 6272, 3172)

## Attestations

- [ZA 10a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA10a/index.md>): A-MI-DA-U 1 — My 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.

## Same root

- [A-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA/index.md>) (ʿamma)
- [A-MA-WA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA-WA-SI/index.md>) (ʿAmma-wāṣiʾ)
- [\*306+MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*306~2BMI/index.md>) (ʿAmmī)
- [A-MA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA-JA/index.md>) (ʿAmmaya)
- [DI-\*306](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-*306/index.md>) (Diʿa)
- [JA-DA-SU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-DA-SU/index.md>) (Yadaʿ-Šum)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-MI-DA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-MI-DA-U/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998; Gelb 1980; Howard 2023
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Howard, J. Caleb (2023), Amorite Names through Time and Space. Journal of Semitic Studies,68.1,Oxford University Press,19–67
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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