I-DA-A
of Ida (diptotic genitive after DU-*314-RE); rival 'toward Ida'
- Reading
- ʾIda
- Confidence
- Probable
- Root
- *yad- ~ *ʾid- ‘hand’
- Kind
- Toponym
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- #32 of the top 100
Compared forms
- Hebrewהָהָרָהhāhārāhhāhārāh (הָהָרָה) ‘toward the mountain’ (Gen 19:17, the hē locale -āh); yad (יָד) ‘hand, arm’ (HALOT 386)
- Ugariticʾugarita, diptotic genitive ‘of Ugarit’ in ḥmyt ugrt /ḥāmiyātu ʾugarita/ ‘the walls of Ugarit’; yd ‘hand’
- Akkadianidumidum ‘arm, side; strength’ (Old Assyrian idu)
- Phoenician𐤉𐤃ydyd ‘hand, arm’
Attestations1 cited
Commentary
The diptotic genitive in dubur ʾIda, ‘the sanctuary of Ida’, as Ugaritic /ḥāmiyātu ʾugarita/ ‘the walls of Ugarit’, where a diptotic place name has genitive -a (Huehnergard 2012, 40, §IV.B.3). Rival: ‘toward Ida’, with the directive of Ugaritic -h /-ah(a)/ and Hebrew -āh, which final A alone does not show. Bare I-DA is attested. Ida ‘the Hand’ (see I-DA): Ebla spells ‘hand(s)’ i-da-a, sign for sign (A.ŠU.LUḪ = ma-wu i-da-a ‘water of the hands’, GlOS 2, 27, 371); Cretan Greek writes the name Βίδα.