JA-DA-SU

personal name, 'Šum knew'

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Reading
Yadaʿ-Šum
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ydʕ ‘know’ + *(ʾi-)šim- ‘name’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • AmoriteJI-JDAʿ+ŚUM, I-DA-SU-UM (Gelb 1980, no. 2430); JADAʿ names, IA-DA-AḪ-…, IA-DA-DINGIR (Gelb 1980, nos. 3168–3178); Mari ia-da-am-mu, ia-da-aḫ-DINGIR (GlOS 2, 342)
  • Ugariticydʿ PN, ydʿn PN (DULAT 942)
  • HebrewYədaʿyāh (HALOT 392)

Attestations1 cited

  1. KH 74]-SI JA-DA-SU

Commentary

KH 74: ]-SỊ · JA-DA-SU, then ]SỊ-*805-MI, both broken before. Yadaʿ-Šum ‘Šum knew’, the Amorite JI-JDAʿ+ŚUM, I-DA-SU-UM (Gelb 1980, no. 2430), with JADAʿ (nos. 3168–3178) and Sum, the divine ‘Name’ (GlOS 2, 249–250; PS *(ʾi-)šim-); ʿ and mimation unwritten. Ug. ydʿ (DULAT 942), Heb. Yədaʿyāh. Rival: yadaʿšu ‘he knew him’, the verb with -šu, as Akk. Ilšu-ibbīšu ‘his god named him’ (de Boer 2014, 305). One attestation. See A-MI-DA-U.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon