# DI-NA-RO (Dānīlo / Dānīlu)

> personal name ("El judges"—Ugaritic hero-king Dāniʾēlu)

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

- Reading: Dānīlo / Dānīlu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*dyn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S36/index.md>) 'to judge, govern' 1, 'judgment, legal case' 2, 'judge' 3 + [\*ʾil-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2719/index.md>) 'god, deity; El (supreme god)'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DI (di) · NA (na) · RO (ro)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: Dāniʾēlu—hero-king of KTU 1.17-19 (Tale of Aqhat). √d-y-n "to judge" + ʾēl "God."
- Hebrew: Dāniyyēʾl (דָּנִיֵּאל)—Ezekiel 14:14, 14:20, 28:3; likely same figure as Ugaritic Danel
- Akkadian: Da-ni-ilu—PN attested in Amarna letters (EA 256)

## Attestations

- [HT 108](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT108/index.md>): DI-NA-RO 2 — personal name ("El judges")

## Commentary

HT 108 (Scribe HT 2, LM IB), a grain ration list headed by KI-RE-TA-NA 'Cretan': DI-NA-RO 2, DU-SU-NI 5, RA₂-TI 10. Dānīlu 'El judges', the Ugaritic hero-king Dāniʾēlu: √d-y-n with theophoric ʾēl contracted to -lo, RO writing lo. DI for the a of Dāniʾēlu writes the i of the root's noun dīnu 'judgment' (CAD D 150). DI-NA-U Dīnāyu shares the base. HT 108 thus holds the roots of both Ugaritic epic heroes' names, Keret and Danel. One attestation.

## Same root

- [DI-NA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NA-U/index.md>) (Dīnāyu)
- [I-RA₂](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-RA~E2~82~82/index.md>) (ʾilā(t))
- [DI-NI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NI/index.md>) (Dīnī)
- [DA-NA-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-NA-TU/index.md>) (dānatu)
- [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)
- [PI-RU-E-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-RU-E-JU/index.md>) (Pirʾu-ʾēlu)
- [SA-RE-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-RE-JU/index.md>) (Šarr-ēlu)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 

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