# DI-NE (dīn)

> judgment (name element)

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

- Reading: dīn
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- 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) · NE (ne)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎐 *dn* — dn 'judgment, case, sentence' (DULAT 273); the last element of ảwldn, ỉldn, bʕldn (DULAT 128, 52, 207)
- Linear A: DI-NI Dīnī, DI-RE-DI-NA ʾaddīr-dīnā

## Attestations

- [HT 6a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT6a/index.md>): O-RA₂-DI-NE 2

## Commentary

Attested only within O-RA₂-DI-NE ʾŌl-dīn (HT 6a .4): dī-n, the final vowel dead. The same element as DI-NI Dīnī and DI-RE-DI-NA ʾaddīr-dīnā. One witness.

## Same root

- [DI-NA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NA-U/index.md>) (Dīnāyu)
- [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-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)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT
- 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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