# KA-DU-MA-NE (Qadmān)

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

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

- Reading: Qadmān
- Confidence: Confirmed. The function is fixed inside the corpus (position, arithmetic, commodity signs). The etymology may still be a proposal.
- Root: [\*ḳdm](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2607/index.md>) 'to precede, be in front'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · DU (du) · MA (ma) · NE (ne)
- Rank: #20 of the top 100
- First proposed by Cyrus H. Gordon, Evidence for the Minoan Language (1966), §141, §155

## Compared forms

- Amorite: *qadmānum* — qadmānum 'eastern' (Gelb AS 21, 29); PN QADM-AN-UM (Gelb AS 21 no. 1704)
- Hebrew: *qadmōnî* — qadmōnî 'eastern'; haqqadmōnî 'the Kadmonites (easterners)', Gen 15:19 (HALOT 1071)
- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎄𐎎 *qdm* — qdm (I) 'front; the East' (DULAT 683)
- Akkadian: qudmu, qadmu 'early times; front' (CAD Q 295)

## Attestations

- [HT 29](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT29/index.md>): KA-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.

## Same root

- [QE-DE-MI-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QE-DE-MI-NU/index.md>) (Qēdmīnu)

## In the onomasticon

- [KA-DU-MA-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KA-DU-MA-NE/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gordon 1966; Gelb 1980; GlOS 1
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- 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
- CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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