# KI-DI-NI (Kidinni)

> personal name, 'protection (of the god)' (Akk. kidinnu)

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

- Reading: Kidinni
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kdn](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3846/index.md>) 'to cover, protect' 1, 'protection' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KI (ki) · DI (di) · NI (ni)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *kidinnu* — kidinnu "divine protection"; OB personal names Ki-din-Amurrum, Ki-di-nu-um (CAD K 342–343)

## Attestations

- [HT 93a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT93a/index.md>): KI-DI-NI 5 𐝆𐝅 — personal name, 'protection' (Akk. kidinnu)

## Commentary

HT93a .3 KI-DI-NI 5 J H, in a grain list of recipients with DI-RI-NA, A-SE, SA-RA₂ and QA-QA-RU. Akkadian kidinnu 'divine protection', in Old Babylonian personal names Ki-din-Amurrum and Ki-di-nu-um (CAD K 342–343); the bare name is Middle Assyrian ki-di-ni Kidinni (ORACC tcma/assur, Assur 3/1 no. 2, r. 27). Rival: kittini 'linen' (Akk. kitû, Ug. ktn), which needs DI for ti and a textile in a grain list. One attestation.

## Rival readings

- kittini: linen: Akk. kitû "flax, linen" (CAD K 473); Ug. ktn "a type of tunic" (DULAT 464); Heb. kuttōnet (Gen 3:21; 37:3). Needs DI for ti and a textile entry in a grain list.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; ORACC tcma
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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

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