DU-NI-MI

(to) the lord / lords—recipient entry; written only as WA-DU-NI-MI 'and (to) the lord(s)'

𐘬DUAB5131 entries𐘝NIAB3029 entries𐘻MIAB7345 entries
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Reading
ʾadunim / ʾadunīm
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ʾadōn- ‘lord, master (divine and secular)’
Kind
Personnel
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Amoriteʾadun- in PNs: ʾADUN-UM A-DU-NU-UM (Gelb AS 21 no. 199); LA+ʾADON-IM LA-DU-NIM, genitive (no. 4246, Mari); A-du-na-dIM (Huffmon APNM p. 20). Huffmon p. 159: the names favour Albright’s *ʾadun- ‘lord’ over Gelb’s *ʾadān-
  • AmarnaAduna, ruler of Irqata (EA 75:25; EA 140:10); Moran 1992: 380 ‘WS hypo. "father" or "lord"’
  • Ugariticʔadānuʾadn /ʔadānu/ ‘father, lord’; PN A-du-ni-dU (PRU III 15.42 ii 20′, via Huffmon p. 159)
  • Hebrewאָדוֹן ʾādôn, pl. אֲדֹנִים ʾădōnîm (< *ʾadān- by the Canaanite shift)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 6bWA-DU-NI-MI 3 ≈ ¹⁄₆
  2. HT 85bWA-DU-NI-MI 1administrative roster label (unread)

Commentary

HT 6b WA-DU-NI-MI 3 + fractions, first line of the verso; HT 85b WA-DU-NI-MI 1, ninth of eleven entries of one unit each, the others names or places (Scribe 9). WA- is wa- ‘and’, allomorph of U; list entries otherwise carry no conjunction. The initial ʾa- is absorbed after the particle, as in Amorite LA-DU-NIM la-ʾadun-im (Gelb 1980, no. 4246). -NI-MI is the genitive singular -im or the plural -īm, which the script does not distinguish. With no DO sign, ʾadun- and ʾadōn- both write DU. HT 127a DU-NE-MI, whole at the head of its line, is a separate name, ḏū-naʿmi. Two attestations. Cf. A-DU-NI-TA-NA (ARKH 5), ʾadun-nittan ‘the lord gave’. See DU-NE-MI.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon