# DA-MI-NU (Ḏā-Mīnu)

> personal name, 'He of the Portion' (ḏā + √m-n-y); rival √m-n-n 'He of the Favor'

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

- Reading: Ḏā-Mīnu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*mVnVw- ~ \*ʾVmVn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/643/index.md>) 'count' 1, 'test, try' 2, 'be certain, believe' 3, 'be secure, safe; make secure, protect' 4, 'measure, portion, share; fate' 5 + [\*mVnn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3776/index.md>) 'bestow, grant a favour' 1, 'favour, benefit' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · MI (mi) · NU (nu)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: ḏmn PN (etym. unc.), syll. ZI-me-ni, ZI-me-nu (RS 34.169:2) (DULAT 283); tmn (II) PN (etym. unc.), syll. ta-me-nu (RS 34.169:5) (DULAT 858)

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>): DA-MI-NU 1

## Commentary

HT 117a .8 DA-MI-NU 1, whole and undotted, in the second list headed SA-TA, before DA-NE-KU-TI 1 (GORILA I 197). Ḏā-Mīnu 'He of the Portion': the determinative-relative ḏā, written DA as in DA-QE-RA ḏā-Qīra, + MI-NU, as one word, as DU-RU-WI ḏu-luwwī is, of the type of Amorite Zu-i-la 'He of God' and Zu-dIš-ḫa-ra 'He of Išḫara' (Gelb 1980, nos. 6596, 6598), with MI-NU from √m-n-y 'count, allot' (Amorite manawum, manūtum, Gelb 1980, 25; Arb. Manāt, Q 53:20), MI- for Amorite ma- as in MI-NU-TE against Ma-nu-tum (Gelb 1980, no. 4528). Rivals: √m-n-n 'bestow, favor' (Lane 3024), 'He of the Favor'; Ḏimenu, the Ugaritic name ḏmn, syllabic ZI-me-ni, ZI-me-nu (RS 34.169:2; DULAT 283), which DULAT leaves without etymology; Ugaritic tmn (II), ta-me-nu (RS 34.169:5; DULAT 858), which needs DA for t. Weak point: DA writes the accusative ḏā (Fischer 2002, §283), where Amorite and Ebla names open with nominative ḏū. Cf. LB da-mi-ni-jo, a shepherd at Knossos (DMic I 152–153).

## Same root

- [MI-NU-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MI-NU-TE/index.md>) (minūt)
- [MI+\*301](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MI~2B*301/index.md>) (minā)
- [DA-DU-MI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-MI-NE/index.md>) (dādu-Mīnō)
- [PI-MI-NA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-MI-NA-TE/index.md>) (bi-mināti)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Fischer 2002
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- Fischer, Wolfdietrich (2002), A Grammar of Classical Arabic. Yale Language Series,Yale University Press
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- 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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