# I-DA-A (ʾIda)

> of Ida (diptotic genitive after DU-\*314-RE); rival 'toward Ida'

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

- Reading: ʾIda
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*yad- ~ \*ʾid-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2046/index.md>) 'hand'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · DA (da) · A (a)
- Rank: #32 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: הָהָרָה *hāhārāh* — hāhārāh (הָהָרָה) 'toward the mountain' (Gen 19:17, the hē locale -āh); yad (יָד) 'hand, arm' (HALOT 386)
- Ugaritic: ʾugarita, diptotic genitive 'of Ugarit' in ḥmyt ugrt /ḥāmiyātu ʾugarita/ 'the walls of Ugarit'; yd 'hand'
- Akkadian: *idum* — idum 'arm, side; strength' (Old Assyrian idu)
- Phoenician: 𐤉𐤃 *yd* — yd 'hand, arm'

## Attestations

- [KO Za 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KOZa1/index.md>): TU-RU-SA DU-\*314-RE I-DA-A — of Ida; alternatively, toward Ida

## 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.

## Same root

- [I-DA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA/index.md>) (ʾIda)
- [JE-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JE-DI/index.md>) (yedī)
- [I-DA-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-MI/index.md>) (ʾIda=mi)
- [I-DA-PA₃-I-SA-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-PA~E2~82~83-I-SA-RI/index.md>) (ʾIdā bi-ʾišarī)
- [\*333-DI-NA-SU-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*333-DI-NA-SU-KA/index.md>) (bīdi Našūka)
- [\*333-DI-SU-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*333-DI-SU-KA/index.md>) (bīdi Sūka)
- [I-DU-NE-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DU-NE-SI/index.md>) (Yidu-naḥši)
- [I-DU-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DU-TI/index.md>) (Yidu-ti)
- [JA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-DI/index.md>) (Yadi)

## In the onomasticon

- [I-DA-A](<https://linear-a.ai/names/I-DA-A/index.md>): Place, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- 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
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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