# DU-NI-MI (ʾadunim / ʾadunīm)

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

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

- Reading: ʾadunim / ʾadunīm
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʾadōn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2744/index.md>) 'lord, master (divine and secular)'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DU (du) · NI (ni) · MI (mi)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: ʾadun- 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-
- Amarna: Aduna, ruler of Irqata (EA 75:25; EA 140:10); Moran 1992: 380 'WS hypo. "father" or "lord"'
- Ugaritic: *ʔadānu* — ʾadn /ʔadānu/ 'father, lord'; PN A-du-ni-dU (PRU III 15.42 ii 20′, via Huffmon p. 159)
- Hebrew: אָדוֹן ʾādôn, pl. אֲדֹנִים ʾădōnîm (< *ʾadān- by the Canaanite shift)

## Attestations

- [HT 6b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT6b/index.md>): WA-DU-NI-MI 3 ≈ ¹⁄₆
- [HT 85b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85b/index.md>): WA-DU-NI-MI 1 — administrative 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.

## In the onomasticon

- [WA-DU-NI-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/WA-DU-NI-MI/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore

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