KA-DU-MA-NE

the Easterner, √q-d-m + -ān (Gordon: Cadmos + -ān)

First proposed by Cyrus H. Gordon, Evidence for the Minoan Language (1966), §141, §155.

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Reading
Qadmān
Confidence
Confirmed
Root
*ḳdm ‘to precede, be in front’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
#20 of the top 100

Compared forms

  • Amoriteqadmānumqadmānum ‘eastern’ (Gelb AS 21, 29); PN QADM-AN-UM (Gelb AS 21 no. 1704)
  • Hebrewqadmōnîqadmōnî ‘eastern’; haqqadmōnî ‘the Kadmonites (easterners)’, Gen 15:19 (HALOT 1071)
  • Ugaritic𐎖𐎄𐎎qdmqdm (I) ‘front; the East’ (DULAT 683)
  • Akkadianqudmu, qadmu ‘early times; front’ (CAD Q 295)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 29KA-DU-MA-NE 1

Commentary

HT 29: KA-DU-MA-NE 1, the last entry of a list of names counted in ones and twos (RU-MA-TA 2, PA-JA-RE 1, DI-JA-I 2, SA-*323-MI 1, A-RE-DA-I 2). Qadmān ‘the Easterner’, √q-d-m ‘front, east’ with -ān: Amorite ga-ad-ma-nu-um Qadmānum ‘eastern’ (Gelb 1980, no. 1704; GlOS 1, 341); Ug. qdmn ‘eastern; leader’ (GlOS 1, 341). One attestation. See QE-DE-MI-NU.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon