DU-ME-DI

Dūmatī (personal name—'the Enduring One', √dwm hypocoristic)

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Reading
Dūmatī
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*dVm-/*dVwVm- ‘dwell’ 1, ‘last’ (v.) 2, ‘stay a long time in…’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

  • AmoriteDūmat-An (DU-MA-TA-AN), Gelb 1980, no. 1581—u-vocalized dūmat- name element
  • Hebrewדּוּמָה Dūmāh, Ishmaelite eponym (Gen 25:14); cf. Dūmat al-Jandal
  • Arabiandmt / dwmt / dymt / dwmn name cluster under dm ‘enduring’ (Harding 1971, 242)
  • Sabaicdwmdwm ‘lasting, permanent’; dwmm ‘forever’ (Beeston et al. 1982, 36; Biella 1982, 81)
  • Arabic√d-w-m√d-w-m ‘to endure, continue’ (9 Quranic occurrences)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 19DU-ME-DI 43 ¹⁄₂personal name: 'the Enduring One' (√d-w-m hypocoristic; Amorite Dūmat-An, Heb. Dūmāh family)

Commentary

HT 19 and HT 17, under the same heading RA-*164-TI · TE · VIN, name the third entry after SA-RO: DU-ME-DI 43½ on HT 19, SI-DA-RE 5 on HT 17. Dūmatī, of the dūmat- name family ‘enduring’: Amorite Dūmat-An (DU-MA-TA-AN, Gelb 1980, no. 1581), Hebrew Dūmāh, the Ishmaelite eponym (Gen 25:14), Arabian dmt, dwmt, dymt and dwmn under dm ‘enduring’ (Harding 1971, 242), Sabaic dwm ‘lasting’ (Beeston et al. 1982, 36; Biella 1982, 81). ME’s vowel is dead, DI writes tī after the nasal, and -ī is hypocoristic as in QA-*310-I qaynī. Rival: Dimti ‘the Tower-estate’, Ug. dmt ‘tower’ and the toponym dmt (DULAT 272), Akk. dimtum ‘tower; fortified area, settlement; district’ (Huehnergard 2011, 492), with the by-forms dintu and dindu (CAD D 144), which make DI regular. See DA-U-MI.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon