# DA-NA-TU (dānatu)

> personal name (f.), 'she who judges'

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

- Reading: dānatu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dyn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S36/index.md>) 'to judge, govern' 1, 'judgment, legal case' 2, 'judge' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · NA (na) · TU (tu)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: dnty, wife of Danel (KTU 1.17 V 16; DULAT 274); dn 'judgment' (DULAT 273)
- Hebrew: Dînāh (Gen 30:21; HALOT 220); dîn 'judgment' (HALOT 220)

## Attestations

- [ARKH 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH6/index.md>): DA-NA-TU KU

## Commentary

ARKH 6: DA-NA-TU · KU heads the tablet, TE-RI on the next line. Feminine participle dānat- + -u, √d-y-n 'to judge'; cf. Ug. dnty, Danel's wife (KTU 1.17 V 16), Heb. Dînāh, and DI-NA-U. Da-na-tum is a man's seal name, son of Sîn-taʾar, servant of Rīm-Sîn (RIME 4.02.14.2009). Weak point: -t may make an abstract 'judgment' as well as a feminine; the Babylonian Da-na-tum is a man. Rival: dannatu 'hardship; fortress' (CAD D 87), a heading. One attestation. See DI-NA-RO.

## Same root

- [DI-NA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NA-U/index.md>) (Dīnāyu)
- [DI-NA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NA-RO/index.md>) (Dānīlo / Dānīlu)
- [DI-NI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NI/index.md>) (Dīnī)
- [DI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NE/index.md>) (dīn)
- [DI-RE-DI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-RE-DI-NA/index.md>) (ʾaddīr-dīnā)
- [O-RA₂-DI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/O-RA~E2~82~82-DI-NE/index.md>) (ʾŌl-dīn)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; RIME 4
- 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
- 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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