# DU-NE-MI (ḏū-naʿmi)

> He of Grace (personal name; ḏū 'he of' + naʿm 'grace, pleasantness')

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

- Reading: ḏū-naʿmi
- 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) + [\*nʕm](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2611/index.md>) 'to be good'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DU (du) · NE (ne) · MI (mi)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: NAʿM-I, NA-AḪ-MI, genitive, Mari (Gelb no. 4893); NA-AḪ-ME-ᵈDA-GAN (no. 4892); NA-MI-ᵈDA-GAN, Alalakh (no. 4999) (Gelb AS 21, 627–628)

## Attestations

- [HT 127a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT127a/index.md>): DU-NE-MI 1

## Commentary

HT 127a .2 DU-NE-MI 1̣[, all three signs whole and undotted at the head of the line, after .1 vest.[, where GORILA's tabular copy sets ] before the word; one man, beside *304+PA-DA-*47-KU 1 (GORILA I 219). DU ḏū 'he of', as in DU-ZU-WA and DU-MA-I-NA; NE-MI naʿmi, the genitive after ḏū, the ʿ unwritten and its a coloured e, as Amorite NA-AḪ-MI, NA-AḪ-ME-ᵈDA-GAN and NA-MI-ᵈDA-GAN (Gelb 1980, nos. 4893, 4892, 4999). Sabaic has ḏ-Nʿmn 'he of Nʿmn' as a by-name (Ja 331; CIH 117). Weak point: no Bronze Age ḏū name on nʿm. One attestation. Cf. TA-NA-MA-JE.

## 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)
- [TA-NU-MU-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NU-MU-TI/index.md>) (ta-nʿum-u-tī)
- [DU-MA-I-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-MA-I-NA/index.md>) (ḏū-maʿīna)
- [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)
- [TA-NA-MA-JE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NA-MA-JE/index.md>) (Tanʿamay)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

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