# JA-DI (Yadi)

> Hand (personal name); rivals Yadīn 'he judges', Yadiʿ 'he knows'

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

- Reading: Yadi
- 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: JA (ja) · DI (di)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: JAD-IM, IA-DI-IM (Gelb 1980, no. 3205); JA-DJIN+HADD-U, IA-DI-IN-D-IM (no. 3206), the Yadīn rival

## Attestations

- [PH Wc 39](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PHWc39/index.md>): JA-DI RO — personal 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.

## 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-NE-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DU-NE-SI/index.md>) (Yidu-naḥši)
- [I-DU-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DU-TI/index.md>) (Yidu-ti)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- GORILA II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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