JA-DI
Hand (personal name); rivals Yadīn 'he judges', Yadiʿ 'he knows'
- Reading
- Yadi
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- *yad- ~ *ʾid- ‘hand’
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- AmoriteJAD-IM, IA-DI-IM (Gelb 1980, no. 3205); JA-DJIN+HADD-U, IA-DI-IN-D-IM (no. 3206), the Yadīn rival
Attestations1 cited
- PH Wc 39JA-DI ROpersonal name, 'Hand'
Commentary
PH Wc 39, an MM II roundel from Vano LI, JA-DI on face a, RO rōš on face b, whole and undotted (GORILA II 94). ya-di sign for sign as the Amorite name IA-DI-IM (Gelb 1980, no. 3205), mimation unwritten, *yad- ‘hand’. Rivals: Yadīn ‘he judges’ (Gelb no. 3206 IA-DI-IN-), Yadiʿ ‘he knows’, each with a final consonant unwritten. One witness. See I-DA, JE-DI and I-DU-NE-SI.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.