I-DU-NE-SI

Strength is alive, the arm thrives (personal name); rival Yidu-nešše, Hurrian 'prosperity'

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Reading
Yidu-naḥši
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*yad- ~ *ʾid- ‘hand’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Eblaitei-du na-sa, yidu-naḥša ‘strength is alive’; i-du na, yidu-na ‘our strength’ (Pagan 1998, rows 2469, 2466)
  • Akkadiannaḫāšunaḫāšu ‘to prosper’ (CAD N/1 133); naḫšu ‘healthy, prosperous’, PN Na-aḫ-šum (CAD N/1 142)
  • Hurrianneššenešše ‘prospérité’, ne-eš-ši (Laroche, GLH 181), rival

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 13I-DU-NE-SI 5personal name 'Strength is alive', 5; rival Hurrian nešše

Commentary

HT 13 .5–6 I-DU-NE-SI 5, the last recipient in the VIN · TE list headed KA-U-DE-TA, after TE-KI 27½, KU-ZU-NI 18, DA-SI-ṬA 19, before KU-RO 130½; lines .4–7 over an erasure (GORILA I 27). I-DU = yidu ‘arm, strength’, as in I-DU-TI; NE-SI = naḥši, ḥ unwritten: the Eblaite name i-du na-sa yidu-naḥša ‘strength is alive’ word for word (Pagan 1998, row 2469). Cf. Amorite E-DU-NA-SA (Gelb no. 1599), unanalysed. Rivals: Hurrian nešše ‘prosperity’, the vowels match, beside Hurrian TE-KI; Naśiʾ, the god of DA-NA-SI, ‘Naśiʾ is strength’. See JA-DI and I-DA.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon