# I-DA-DA (dādā)

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

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

- Reading: dādā
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dawid-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/19/index.md>) 'father's brother, uncle; foster-father; honourable title; beloved'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · DA (da) · DA (da)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *dōd* — dōd 'beloved' (Song of Songs)
- Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎄 *dd* — dd 'love; loved one'; ydd /yadīdu/ 'beloved' (CUC)
- Amorite: *dad-* — dad- 'favorite' (Huffmon 1965, 181); dādum 'beloved' (Gelb 1980); Alalakh DAWD-A, DA-DA (Gelb 1980, no. 1413)
- Eblaite: *da-da dādā* — da-da dādā 'the beloved', a name (Pagan 1998, row 1396)
- Mari: Dâdâ, a name (ARM 26/1, 594)
- Akkadian (Ugarit): Dadâ, a name (Kinlaw 1967, 47)

## Attestations

- [CR Zg 4](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/CRZg4/index.md>): I-DA-DA — O 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.

## Same root

- [DU-DA-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-DA-MA/index.md>) (Dūdāma)
- [DA-DU-\*301](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-*301/index.md>) (dādu-nā-…)
- [DA-DU-MI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-MI-NE/index.md>) (dādu-Mīnō)
- [DE-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DE-DI/index.md>) (Dedī)
- [RU-JA-TA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RU-JA-TA-DI/index.md>) (Ruya-dādī)
- [TA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-DI/index.md>) (dādī)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Huffmon 1965; Pagan 1998; Gelb 1980; ARM 26/1; Kinlaw 1967
- 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
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)

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