# DU-ME-DI (Dūmatī)

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

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

- Reading: Dūmatī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*dVm-/\*dVwVm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1497/index.md>) 'dwell' 1, 'last' (v.) 2, 'stay a long time in one place' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DU (du) · ME (me) · DI (di)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Amorite: Dūmat-An (DU-MA-TA-AN), Gelb 1980, no. 1581—u-vocalized dūmat- name element
- Hebrew: דּוּמָה Dūmāh, Ishmaelite eponym (Gen 25:14); cf. Dūmat al-Jandal
- Arabian: dmt / dwmt / dymt / dwmn name cluster under dm 'enduring' (Harding 1971, 242)
- Sabaic: *dwm* — dwm '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)

## Attestations

- [HT 19](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT19/index.md>): DU-ME-DI 43 ¹⁄₂ — personal 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.

## Same root

- [DA-U-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-U-MI/index.md>) (dawmi)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; Harding 1971; Beeston et al. 1982; Biella 1982; DULAT; Huehnergard 2011; CAD D
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Beeston, A.F.L., M.A. Ghul, W.W. Müller & J. Ryckmans (1982), Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Peeters / Librairie du Liban
- Biella: Biella, Joan Copeland (1982), Dictionary of Old South Arabic: Sabaean Dialect. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 25)
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- Huehnergard, John (2011), A Grammar of Akkadian. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, IN (Harvard Semitic Studies 45); Third Edition

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