# I-DU-NE-SI (Yidu-naḥši)

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

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

- Reading: Yidu-naḥši
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*yad- ~ \*ʾid-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2046/index.md>) 'hand'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · DU (du) · NE (ne) · SI (si)

## Compared forms

- Eblaite: i-du na-sa, yidu-naḥša 'strength is alive'; i-du na, yidu-na 'our strength' (Pagan 1998, rows 2469, 2466)
- Akkadian: *naḫāšu* — naḫāšu 'to prosper' (CAD N/1 133); naḫšu 'healthy, prosperous', PN Na-aḫ-šum (CAD N/1 142)
- Hurrian: *nešše* — nešše 'prospérité', ne-eš-ši (Laroche, GLH 181), rival

## Attestations

- [HT 13](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT13/index.md>): I-DU-NE-SI 5 — personal 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.

## 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-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-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-DU-NE-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/I-DU-NE-SI/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998; Gelb 1980
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- CAD N/1: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1980), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 11, N, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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