# DI-NA-U (Dīnāyu)

> personal name: hypocoristic of a √d-y-n name ('Judge')

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

- Reading: Dīnāyu
- 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
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DI (di) · NA (na) · U (u)
- Rank: #89 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: דִּין *dīn* — dīn (דִּין) 'to judge'
- Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎐 *dn* — dn 'to judge' (CUC, DULAT 272); dn-il 'El judges' (Daniʾilu)
- Akkadian: *dīnu* — dīnu 'judgment' (CAD D 150)
- Arabic: دِين *dīn* — dīn (دِين) 'judgment, religion'

## Attestations

- [HT 9a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT9a/index.md>): DI-NA-U 4 — personal name: hypocoristic of a √d-y-n name ('Judge')
- [HT 9b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT9b/index.md>): DI-NA-U 4 — personal name: hypocoristic of a √d-y-n name ('Judge')
- [HT 16](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT16/index.md>): DI-NA-U ¹⁄₈
- [HT 25a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT25a/index.md>): DI-NA-U — personal name, hypocoristic of a √d-y-n name ('Judge')
- [KN Zb 27](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZb27/index.md>): DI-NA-U VIN 17 — personal 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.

## Same root

- [DI-NA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NA-RO/index.md>) (Dānīlo / Dānīlu)
- [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)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- 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

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