- Reading
- ʾaddīru
- Confidence
- Probable
- Root
- *ʾaddīr- ‘noble, notable’ 1, ‘majestic, powerful’ 2…
- Kind
- Personnel
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- #61 of the top 100
Compared forms
- Hebrewʾaddīrʾaddīr ‘mighty, majestic, noble’ (Ps 8:2, 93:4; Isa 33:21)
- Akkadianadāruadāru ‘to be afraid, to fear’ (semantic shift from ‘awe-inspiring’)
Attestations3 cited
Commentary
HT 95a DI-DE-RU 10, HT 95b and HT 86a, in the Haghia Triada allocation set, always with SA-RU, MI-NU-TE and QE-RA₂-U, in the same order. ʾaddīru ‘nobles’, DI-DE- writing the geminate -dd-: Ug. adr ‘strong, of good quality; noble, notable’ (DULAT 21). Rival: Ug. ʾadr ‘granary, barn’ (GlOS 1, 10), a store drawing grain. Three attestations. See A-DA-RO.