# DI-RI-NA (dīr-īna)

> households, granaries (grain recipient); rivals the Amorite place name Dīr, a personal name

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

- Reading: dīr-īna
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dār-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/657/index.md>) 'dwelling' 1, 'house' 2, 'granary' 3
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DI (di) · RI (ri) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: dīrum (noun), Dīr, Dīrum (GN), Dīrītum (DN), under DWR 'to turn around' (Gelb 1980, AS 21, pp. 17–18)

## Attestations

- [HT 93a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT93a/index.md>): DI-RI-NA DA+RE+SE 43 ¹⁄₂ — households/granaries (SPECULATIVE); rivals the Amorite place name Dīr, a personal name
- [HT 102](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT102/index.md>): DI-RI-NA 10 — households/granaries: 10

## Commentary

A grain recipient in two Scribe 5 lists: HT 93a DI-RI-NA · DA+RE+SE 43½; HT 102 DI-RI-NA 10, beside SA-RA₂ GRA 976, PA₃-NI, VIR, MA-ZU and I-KA. DI-RI = dīr-, the base of Amorite dīrum and Dīr under √d-w-r (Gelb AS 21, 17–18); -NA = masculine plural -īna: households. Rivals: the place name Dīr ('the people of Dīr'), a personal name. Two attestations. See DA-RE.

## Same root

- [DA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-RE/index.md>) (dār)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

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