I-DA-DA

O Beloved!—vocative of the reduplicative divine epithet (with i- prosthesis)

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Reading
dādā
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*dawid- ‘father’s brother, uncle’
Kind
Ritual
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewdōddōd ‘beloved’ (Song of Songs)
  • Ugaritic𐎄𐎄dddd ‘love; loved one’; ydd /yadīdu/ ‘beloved’ (CUC)
  • Amoritedad-dad- ‘favorite’ (Huffmon 1965, 181); dādum ‘beloved’ (Gelb 1980); Alalakh DAWD-A, DA-DA (Gelb 1980, no. 1413)
  • Eblaiteda-da dādāda-da dādā ‘the beloved’, a name (Pagan 1998, row 1396)
  • MariDâdâ, a name (ARM 26/1, 594)
  • Akkadian (Ugarit)Dadâ, a name (Kinlaw 1967, 47)

Attestations1 cited

  1. CR Zg 43DI-DA-DAO Beloved!—vocative of the reduplicative divine epithet; rival a personal name

Commentary

CR Zg 4: I-DA-DA, with A-RO-TE on line 2. Cf. Ugaritic dd ‘love’, by metonymy ‘loved one’ (DULAT 262), ydd ‘loved’ (DULAT 943); Amorite dad- ‘favorite’ (Huffmon 1965, 181). I- is the prosthetic vowel of I-DA-MA-TE beside DA-MA-TE. Rival: a personal name. See TA-DI and DU-DA-MA.

On the 3D inscriptions2 inscriptions

IO Za 2Mount Iouktas…i-daMatched on its surviving signsCR Zg 4Crete (findspot unknown)i-da-da
Linear A Lexicon