# I-DA-MI (ʾIda=mi)

> Ida, 'the Hand', the sacred mountain, with emphatic enclitic -mi

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

- Reading: ʾIda=mi
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*yad- ~ \*ʾid-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2046/index.md>) 'hand'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · DA (da) · MI (mi)

## Compared forms

- : see I-DA

## Attestations

- [SY Za 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/SYZa1/index.md>): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA I-DA-MI JA — Ida herself (emphatic enclitic -mi)

## Commentary

SY Za 1 A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA · I-DA-MI · JA[, formula position 2, where Kophinas has dubur ʾIda (I-DA-A) and Iouktas JA-DI-KI-TU. ʾIda with the emphatic enclitic -mi, as I-PI-NA-MI-NA /ʾippina=mi=na/ (di Mino, Ya Diktu, 11); Ugaritic -m, /-mi/ or /-ma/ (Huehnergard 2012, 79); Ps 68:17 hārī-m gabnunnîm 'O many-peaked mountain' (Dahood, Psalms II, 142). One witness.

## Same root

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Huehnergard 2012; Dahood
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.

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