# DE-DI (Dedī)

> personal name, 'my beloved'; rival the Hurrian name dḏy

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

- Reading: Dedī
- 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: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DE (de) · DI (di)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: ddy PN, syll. DUMU da-de₄-ya, DUMU du-da-a-ya, da-dá-a, ta-di-e (DULAT 264); ¹da-di Dadi, ¹bin-da-de₄-ya Bin-Dadeya (Kinlaw 1967, 47, 37)
- Hebrew: דּוֹדַי Dōday PN (1 Chr 27:4)
- Amorite: da-di-i, dādī 'my beloved', a Sutean (Buck 2018, 327)
- Hurrian (rival): dḏy PN, syll. ti-še-ia, te-še-ia (DULAT 264)

## Attestations

- [HT 94b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT94b/index.md>): DE-DI 1 — PN, 'my beloved' (√d-w-d)

## Commentary

HT 94b .2 DE-DI 1, both signs whole and undotted, in the KI-RO list of five one-unit entries, between PA-TA-NE and KE-KI-RU (GORILA I 153). The name Dedī 'my beloved', of √d-w-d: Ugaritic ddy, syll. da-de₄-ya, du-da-a-ya and ta-di-e (DULAT 264), and the Ugarit names Dadi and Bin-Dadeya (Kinlaw 1967, 47, 37); Amorite da-di-i dādī (Buck 2018, 327); Hebrew Dōday (1 Chr 27:4). Weak point: the comparanda write a or u in the first syllable. Rival: the Hurrian name dḏy, syll. ti-še-ia, te-še-ia (DULAT 264). One witness. See TA-DI.

## Same root

- [DU-DA-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-DA-MA/index.md>) (Dūdāma)
- [DA-DU-\*301](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-*301/index.md>) (dādu-nā-…)
- [DA-DU-MI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-MI-NE/index.md>) (dādu-Mīnō)
- [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)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Kinlaw 1967; Buck 2018
- 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
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)
- 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
- Buck, Mary Ellen (2018), The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: The Historical Origins of the Bronze Age Polity of Ugarit Based upon Linguistic, Literary, and Archaeological Evidence. 

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