# JE-DI (yedī)

> gentilic 'the Idaean' (of Mount Ida); rivals the personal name 'He knows' and the gentilic 'Judean'

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

- Reading: yedī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*yad- ~ \*ʾid-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2046/index.md>) 'hand'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JE (je) · DI (di)
- Rank: #92 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *yād* — yād 'hand' (HALOT 386), the root of Ida (see I-DA); for the rivals, Yĕdîʿăʾēl (יְדִיעֲאֵל), a y-d-ʿ name (1 Chr 11:45; 26:2), and yehūdī (יְהוּדִי) 'Judean'
- Amorite: for the rival, JDʿ 'to know' as a name element (Gelb 1980, glossary); JADAʿ+JAT-UM (Gelb 1980, no. 3168); bare JID-I, written I-DI (no. 2432)
- Akkadian: for the rival, ia-ú-du 'Judah' (Sennacherib, 701 BCE)

## Attestations

- [HT 8a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT8a/index.md>): JE-DI OLE+KI 10 — the Idaean (gentilic, transaction header); rival yēdīʿ 'He knows' (personal name)
- [HT 36](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT36/index.md>): JE-DI \*307+\*307-GRA+QE \[\[20\]\] 44 ¹⁄₂ — the Idaean (gentilic, heading); rival yēdīʿ 'He knows' (personal name)
- [HT 122b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122b/index.md>): JE-DI \*346 VIR+\[?\]\[ — the Idaean (gentilic of Mount Ida; heading)
- [HT 140](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT140/index.md>): JE-DI OLE+KI 1 ¹⁄₂

## Commentary

HT 8a: JE-DI OLE+KI 10, heading the list; HT 36: JE-DI GRA+QE 44½; HT 122b: JE-DI · *346 · VIR+[?], heading a roster of men; HT 140: JE-DI · OLE+KI 1½ in mid-line, JE damaged, with room for a lost sign before it. A recipient on three tablets. yedī 'the Idaean', gentilic of Mount Ida. Rivals: yēdīʿ 'he knows' as a personal name, with ʿ unwritten (Hebrew Yĕdîʿăʾēl, 1 Chr 11:45; Amorite JADAʿ+JAT-UM, Gelb 1980, no. 3168); yehūdī 'Judean', which leaves the ū of -hū- unwritten (U writes /hu/ in U-NA, so the expected spelling is JE-U-DI) and needs Judah, first attested under Tiglath-pileser III (c. 734 BCE), some 700 years after LM IB. See I-DA and JA-DI.

## 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)
- [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)
- [JA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-DI/index.md>) (Yadi)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; HALOT
- 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

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