# DA-U-MI (dawmi)

> the enduring one (personal name)

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

- Reading: dawmi
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*dVm-/\*dVwVm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1497/index.md>) 'dwell' 1, 'last' (v.) 2, 'stay a long time in one place' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · U (u) · MI (mi)

## Compared forms

- Arabic: dāma, inf. n. dawm 'it continued, lasted, endured' (Lane 935)

## Attestations

- [HT 120](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT120/index.md>): DA-U-\*49 A517 20 — the enduring one (candidate personal name)

## Commentary

HT 120: DA-U-*49 · A517 20 under the heading DA-QE-RA, between DA-ME (GRA+K+L 74, GRA+PA 62) and KI-RE-TA-NA (GRA+B 60, GRA+PA 48): a recipient. *49 is read mi, a proposed value: Dawmi 'the enduring one', √d-w-m 'last, endure' (Arb. dwm 'to last', HALOT 216), as in Hebrew Dūmah (HALOT 216) and Assyrian Adummatu. DA-U writes daw analytically, as KA-U-ZU-NI writes Kawṯuni. Weak point: *49 = mi is a proposed value. Rival: *49 as the logogram PALM/TREE after DA-U. One attestation. See DU-ME-DI.

## Same root

- [DU-ME-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-ME-DI/index.md>) (Dūmatī)

## In the onomasticon

- [DA-U-\*49](<https://linear-a.ai/names/DA-U-*49/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London

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