DI-NI

personal name, 'My judgment' (short form of a √d-y-n name); rival the whole group WA-DI-NI, Ugaritic PN wḏny

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Reading
Dīnī
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*dyn- ‘to judge, govern’ 1, ‘judgment, legal case’…
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • AmoriteDīnī-Haddu, DI-NI-A-DU, DI-NA-A-DU (Gelb nos. 1513, 1512)
  • Linear ADI-NA-U Dīnāyu beside WA on HT 16

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT Wc 3007WA-DI-NIpersonal name, 'My judgment'; rival the whole group WA-DI-NI, Ugaritic PN wdny
  2. HT Wc 30083DWA-DI-NI RU-JA-TA-DIpersonal name, 'My judgment'

Commentary

HT Wc 3007 WA-DI-NI, the only text; HT Wc 3008 face a WA · DI-NI, the point after WA in GORILA’s transcription, face b RU-JA-TA-DI; all signs whole and undotted (GORILA II 74). WA is the cloth sign, alone on HT Wc 3019 (WA ¼) and KH Wc 2124, and beside DI-NA-U Dīnāyu on HT 16. dī-nī ‘my judgment’, as Alalakh Dīnī-Haddu, DI-NI-A-DU (Gelb no. 1513). Rival: one word, Ugaritic PN wḏny, ‘etym. unc.’ (DULAT 929). Two witnesses.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).

Linear A Lexicon