DI-RE-DI-NA

mighty is the verdict (compound sentence name); rival a simplex recipient name

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Reading
ʾaddīr-dīnā
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ʾaddīr- ‘noble, notable’ 1, ‘majestic, powerful’ 2… + *dyn- ‘to judge, govern’ 1, ‘judgment, legal case’…
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Hebrewאַדִּיר ʾaddīr (Ps 8:2, 93:4, Ex 15:11) + דָּן dān (Gen 30:6)
  • Hebrew (PN)עַדְרִיאֵל Adriel (1 Sam 18:19), אֲבִידָן Abidan (Num 1:11), דָּנִיֵּאל Daniel
  • Ugariticʾadr (divine epithet) + dn (Danel, KTU 1.17)
  • Akkadianaddiruaddiru "mighty" + dāyānu "judge"
  • PunicʾDRBʿL, ʾDRMLK; BALDIR (Benz 1972, 262)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 98aDI-RE-DI-NA ¹⁄₂recipient of ½; 'mighty is the verdict'; rival a simplex name

Commentary

HT 98a DI-RE-DI-NA ½, a recipient between TA-NA-TI ¾ and TE-*301 ¾. ʾaddīr-dīnā ‘mighty is the verdict’: ʾaddīr as in DI-DE-RU ʾaddīru (√ʾ-d-r), dīn ‘verdict’, the name element diyn (GlOS 1, 155), as in DI-NA-U Dīnāyu and DI-NA-RO Dānīlu (√d-y-n). The NWS sentence name of predicate adjective and noun, the Ebla type ʾaddīr-X ‘X is powerful’: ʾaddīr-ʾIl, ʾaddīr-Malik (Pagan 1998, rows 848, 852), Punic ʾDRBʿL, ʾDRMLK (Benz 1972, 262). DI-RE leaves ʾa- unwritten, as DI-DE-RU and Punic BALDIR, BALIDDIR for bʿl ʾdr (Benz 1972, 262). Rival: a simplex recipient name. Weak point: Punic drops the ʾa- inside the name, DI-RE-DI-NA at its head. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon