# DU-SU-NI (Dišon)

> personal name, 'antelope'

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

- Reading: Dišon
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dīšān-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3785/index.md>) 'aurochs, antelope'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DU (du) · SU (su) · NI (ni)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: Dîšôn, Horite and Edomite clan, wədîšôn wəʾēṣer wədîšān (Gen 36:21); dîšôn 'aurochs, antelope', among the clean animals (Deut 14:5) (HALOT 221)

## Attestations

- [HT 108](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT108/index.md>): DU-SU-NI 4 — personal name, 'antelope'; rival a Hurrian name in -nni

## Commentary

HT 108 .2 DI-NA-RO 2 DU-SU-NI 4[, whole and undotted, a recipient in the grain list under KI-RE-TA-NA (GORILA I 175). Hebrew Dîšôn and Dîšān, clans of Seir (Gen 36:21), and dîšôn 'antelope' (Deut 14:5). Rival: a Hurrian name in -nni, as DA-KU-SE-NE. One document.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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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