# JA-DA-SU (Yadaʿ-Šum)

> personal name, 'Šum knew'

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

- Reading: Yadaʿ-Šum
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ydʕ](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2500/index.md>) 'know' + [\*(ʾi-)šim-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/621/index.md>) 'name'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JA (ja) · DA (da) · SU (su)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: JI-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)
- Ugaritic: ydʿ PN, ydʿn PN (DULAT 942)
- Hebrew: Yədaʿyāh (HALOT 392)

## Attestations

- [KH 74](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH74/index.md>): \]-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.

## Same root

- [A-MI-DA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MI-DA-U/index.md>) (ʿAmmī-dāʿ(u))
- [JA-SU-MA-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SU-MA-TU/index.md>) (yā Šumāt)
- [SI-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-MA/index.md>) (šima)
- [DI-\*306](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-*306/index.md>) (Diʿa)

## In the onomasticon

- [JA-DA-SU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/JA-DA-SU/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; DULAT; GlOS 2; de Boer 2014
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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
- de Boer, Rients (2014), Amorites in the Early Old Babylonian Period. 
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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