# DU-MA-I-NA (ḏū-maʿīna)

> He of the Spring (personal name; ḏū 'he of' + maʿīn 'spring, flowing water'); rival a product, '(the drink) of the spring'

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

- Reading: ḏū-maʿīna
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḏī-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0877/index.md>) 'he who, that which' (masculine demonstrative/relative) + [\*maʕyān-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2758/index.md>) 'spring, fountain'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DU (du) · MA (ma) · I (i) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *maʿyān* — maʿyān 'spring, source; place of origin, headwaters'; maʿyan mayim (Lev 11:36) (HALOT 612)
- Syriac: meʿīnā (HALOT 612)
- Arabic: *maʿīn* — maʿīn 'spring' (HALOT 612); rabwatin ḏāti qarārin wa-maʿīnin 'a high ground having level areas and flowing water' (Q 23:50); kaʾsin min maʿīn 'a cup from a flowing spring' (Q 37:45, 56:18)

## Attestations

- [HT 123+124b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT123~2B124b/index.md>): DU-MA-I-NA ³⁄₈ — He of the Spring (personal name), ⅜; rival a product, '(the drink) of the spring'

## Commentary

HT 123+124b .5 DU-MA-I-NA ⅜, after SI-DU and before KU-RO 20, on a face written over an erasure; I underdotted, whole in the facsimile beside the break that crosses NA (GORILA I 212–213). DU ḏū 'he of', as in DU-ZU-WA and DU-RU-WI; MA-I-NA maʿīna, the ʿ unwritten, I for ī, as Syriac meʿīnā. A recipient named for his spring, as the ḏāti … maʿīn of Q 23:50. Rival: a product, '(the drink) of the spring', after TU-PA-DI-DA. Weak points: I is dotted; Arabic maʿīn and Syriac meʿīnā are late. One attestation. Cf. DU-ZU-WA.

## Same root

- [DU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU/index.md>) (du)
- [DA-QE-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-QE-RA/index.md>) (ḏā-Qīra)
- [DU-RU-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-RU-WI/index.md>) (ḏu-luwwī)
- [DU-NE-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-NE-MI/index.md>) (ḏū-naʿmi)
- [DU-ZU-WA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-ZU-WA/index.md>) (ḏū-ṯuwāʕ)
- [KA-\*305](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-*305/index.md>) (ka-ḏā)
- [SE-WA-AU-DE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-WA-AU-DE/index.md>) (šawaʿ-dē)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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