# DI-DE-RU (ʾaddīru)

> nobles, notables; rival ʾadr 'granary'

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

- Reading: ʾaddīru
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*ʾaddīr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1340/index.md>) 'noble, notable' 1, 'majestic, powerful' 2, 'assembly of elders, council' 3
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DI (di) · DE (de) · RU (ru)
- Rank: #61 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *ʾaddīr* — ʾaddīr 'mighty, majestic, noble' (Ps 8:2, 93:4; Isa 33:21)
- Akkadian: *adāru* — adāru 'to be afraid, to fear' (semantic shift from 'awe-inspiring')

## Attestations

- [HT 86a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT86a/index.md>): DI-DE-RU 20 — nobles, council of elders
- [HT 95a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT95a/index.md>): DI-DE-RU 10 — nobles, council of elders
- [HT 95b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT95b/index.md>): DI-DE-RU 10 — nobles, council of elders

## 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.

## Same root

- [A-DA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DA-RO/index.md>) (ʾAddar)
- [DI-RE-DI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-RE-DI-NA/index.md>) (ʾaddīr-dīnā)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; GlOS 1
- 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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