# DA-DU-MI-NE (dādu-Mīnō) > Beloved of Minos (compound theophoric name) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: dādu-Mīnō - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*dawid-]() 'father's brother, uncle; foster-father; honourable title; beloved' + [\*mVnVw- ~ \*ʾVmVn-]() 'count' 1, 'test, try' 2, 'be certain, believe' 3, 'be secure, safe; make secure, protect' 4, 'measure, portion, share; fate' 5 - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: DA (da) · DU (du) · MI (mi) · NE (ne) ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *dādu* — dādu 'darling' (CAD D 20) - Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎄 *dd* — dd 'love, loved one' (DULAT 262); ydd 'loved' (DULAT 943); lydd il 'to the beloved of El' (KTU 1.4 VII 46) - Hebrew: *dōd* — dōd 'beloved' (HALOT 215); Yədîdyāh 'beloved of Yah' (2 Sam 12:25; HALOT 390) - Hurrian: *tad-* — tad- 'to love', tadi-/tadu- in names (Laroche GLH 248); Tadu-Ḫepa (TLHdig KBo 27.93+) ## Attestations - [KN Zf 31](): \]SI\[ \]SI-ZA-NE-\*310 DA-DU-MI-NE QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA A-WA-PI TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I A-DA-RA TI-DI-TE-QA-TI TA-SA-ZA TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE — Beloved of Minos (theophoric PN) ## Commentary KN Zf 31, a silver dress pin from a Mavro Spelio tomb: DA-DỤ-MI-NE between ]SỊ-ZẠ-NE-*310 and QA-MI-*47-NA-RA, DU dotted (GORILA IV 155). A compound of two roots: DA-DU 'beloved' + MI-NE, Minos (√m-n-n 'to allot, portion'). 'Beloved of DN' is a name type: Heb. Yədîdyāh (2 Sam 12:25), Ug. ydd il (KTU 1.4 VII 46). The type dādu + DN: Ebla da-du-ʾIl 'beloved is ʾIl' (Pagan 1998, row 1402), Mari da-du-ma-lik, da-du-me-er (GlOS 1, 152). Hurrian builds the type on tad- 'to love'; DA writes /da/ and /ta/. MI-NE is the Ebla name mi-ne (ARET 3 134, 4 15, 12 668, 15 20) and the element of ù-na-mi-ne. Rivals: Sanmartín's meny '(the) love; DN', √m-n-w/y 'to love', entered with a query (GlOS 2, 45); a Hurrian tadu- name. One attestation. See TA-DI, I-DA-DA, DA-DU-*301 and PI-MI-NA-TE. ## Same root - [MI-NU-TE]() (minūt) - [MI+\*301]() (minā) - [DU-DA-MA]() (Dūdāma) - [DA-DU-\*301]() (dādu-nā-…) - [DA-MI-NU]() (Ḏā-Mīnu) - [DE-DI]() (Dedī) - [I-DA-DA]() (dādā) - [PI-MI-NA-TE]() (bi-mināti) - [RU-JA-TA-DI]() (Ruya-dādī) - [TA-DI]() (dādī) ## In the onomasticon - [DA-DU-MI-NE](): Personal name, Semitic ## Related forms - DA-DU-\*301 (DRAZg1, SPECULATIVE) ## References - Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998; GlOS 1; GlOS 2; EbDA - KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2 - GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck - 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 - Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012) - EbDA: Ebla Digital Archives (CNR), Ebla Digital Archives (EbDA): ARET, ARES and MEE text editions. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - 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 - GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris - GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park - GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-MI-NE/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.