# DA-DU-\*301 (dādu-nā-…)

> 'our beloved …', the opening of a longer word

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

- Reading: dādu-nā-…
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dawid-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/19/index.md>) 'father's brother, uncle; foster-father; honourable title; beloved'
- Kind: Unknown
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · DU (du) · \*301

## Compared forms

- Amorite: *dādum* — dādum 'beloved', with dawd(ān)um (Gelb AS 21, 17); PN DAWD-UM (Gelb 1980, no. 1437)
- Hebrew: *dôd* — dôd 'beloved, uncle, love' (HALOT 215)
- Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎄 *dd* — dd (I) 'love' (DULAT 262)
- Akkadian: *dādu* — dādu A 'love-making; darling, favorite' (CAD D 20)

## Attestations

- [DRA Zg 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/DRAZg1/index.md>): DA-DU-\*301̣-\[?\]-\[?\]

## Commentary

DRA Zg 1, a five-sign retrograde graffito on a clay reel from Drama-Kajrjaka, Bulgaria: DA-DU-*301̣-[?]-[?], the last two signs unread; RILA-S1 D 24 classes the inscription as doubtful. DA-DU opens DA-DU-MI-NE on KN Zf 31 and DA-DU-MA-TA on HT 95a. With *301 = na, dādu-nā 'our beloved': Amorite dādum, dawdum 'beloved' (DAWD-UM, Gelb 1980, no. 1437), with Ugaritic -nā 'our' after the case vowel, as malku-nā 'our king'. No divider follows *301, so the word runs on into the two lost signs. Rival: the Amorite name type dawdān- (Gelb 1980, nos. 1397, 1407–1408, 1416–1419; Da-da-nu-um, Huffmon 1965, 28). See DA-DU-MI-NE and TA-DI.

## Same root

- [DU-DA-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-DA-MA/index.md>) (Dūdāma)
- [DA-DU-MI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-MI-NE/index.md>) (dādu-Mīnō)
- [DE-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DE-DI/index.md>) (Dedī)
- [I-DA-DA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-DA/index.md>) (dādā)
- [RU-JA-TA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RU-JA-TA-DI/index.md>) (Ruya-dādī)
- [TA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-DI/index.md>) (dādī)

## References

- Reading: Fol and Schmitt 2000, 56–62; Gelb 1980; Huffmon 1965; Huehnergard 2012, 33–34; RILA-S1 D 24
- Fol, Alexander; Schmitt, Rüdiger (2000), A Linear A Text on a Clay Reel from Drama, South-East Bulgaria?. Prähistorische Zeitschrift,75/1,56–62
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts

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