# DI-NI (Dīnī)

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

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

- Reading: Dīnī
- 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) · NI (ni)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: Dīnī-Haddu, DI-NI-A-DU, DI-NA-A-DU (Gelb nos. 1513, 1512)
- Linear A: DI-NA-U Dīnāyu beside WA on HT 16

## Attestations

- [HT Wc 3007](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3007/index.md>): WA-DI-NI — personal name, 'My judgment'; rival the whole group WA-DI-NI, Ugaritic PN wdny
- [HT Wc 3008](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3008/index.md>): WA-DI-NI RU-JA-TA-DI — personal 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.

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- GORILA II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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