DI-NA-U
personal name: hypocoristic of a √d-y-n name ('Judge')
- Reading
- Dīnāyu
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- *dyn- ‘to judge, govern’ 1, ‘judgment, legal case’…
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- #89 of the top 100
Compared forms
Attestations5 cited
- HT 9a3DDI-NA-U 4personal name: hypocoristic of a √d-y-n name ('Judge')
- HT 9b3DDI-NA-U 4personal name: hypocoristic of a √d-y-n name ('Judge')
- HT 16DI-NA-U ¹⁄₈
- HT 25aDI-NA-Upersonal name, hypocoristic of a √d-y-n name ('Judge')
- KN Zb 273DDI-NA-U VIN 17personal name: hypocoristic of a √d-y-n name ('Judge')
Commentary
Five documents at Haghia Triada and Knossos: a personnel list (HT 25a, twice, among names with quantity 1) and commodity allocations (HT 9a under VIN, DI-NA-U 4; HT 9b under AROM, DI-NA-U 4; KN Zb 27, VIN 17), a common NWS name at both sites. A √d-y-n ‘judge’ name, with -U after NA writing the hypocoristic -āyu/-āʾu (Amorite -ay-um: ʾAhlul-ay-um, Gelb 1980, no. 690; cf. Diyn-i-Baddu, no. 1512). Huffmon’s glossary gives dyn ‘judge’, Common Semitic, as a Mari name element: the G imperfect Ya-di-nim (yaqtil class), the precative La-di-nam, I-di-AN (Huffmon 1965, 182; Noth IPN 187–188). Rival: √ʾ-d-n ‘lord’ with the laryngeal lost, ʾadōnū ‘our lord’, on the same d-n skeleton at the cost of one more assumption. See DI-NE.