# DI-RE-DI-NA (ʾaddīr-dīnā)

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

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

- Reading: ʾaddīr-dīnā
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʾaddīr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1340/index.md>) 'noble, notable' 1, 'majestic, powerful' 2, 'assembly of elders, council' 3 + [\*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) · RE (re) · DI (di) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: אַדִּיר 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
- Ugaritic: ʾadr (divine epithet) + dn (Danel, KTU 1.17)
- Akkadian: *addiru* — addiru "mighty" + dāyānu "judge"
- Punic: ʾDRBʿL, ʾDRMLK; BALDIR (Benz 1972, 262)

## Attestations

- [HT 98a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT98a/index.md>): DI-RE-DI-NA ¹⁄₂ — recipient 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.

## Same root

- [DI-DE-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-DE-RU/index.md>) (ʾaddīru)
- [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)
- [A-DA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DA-RO/index.md>) (ʾAddar)
- [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)
- [O-RA₂-DI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/O-RA~E2~82~82-DI-NE/index.md>) (ʾŌl-dīn)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998; Benz 1972; GlOS 1
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Benz, Frank L. (1972), Personal Names in the Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions. Studia Pohl 8,Biblical Institute Press
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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