# MA-DI (Maʾdi)

> place name: a unit of men and livestock in the HT rosters; rival the Hurrian personal name Madi 'wisdom'

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

- Reading: Maʾdi
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*mVʾad-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1704/index.md>) 'many, much' 1, 'very' 2
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MA (ma) · DI (di)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: MAʾD-IJA, MA-DI-IA, PN (Gelb 1980, no. 4453; cf. nos. 4454–55)
- Linear B: ma-di (KN As 603.2, Db 1168); ma-di-qo (KN Bk 806, Db 1460, Dl 930); ]ma-di-jo[ (KH Z 3); ma-di-je (TH Av 101, Fq 214, 254, 258, 263)
- Hurrian: Madi PN, madi 'wisdom' (de Martino 2011, 68), rival

## Attestations

- [HT 118](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT118/index.md>): MA-DI 15 — place name, 15; rival the Hurrian personal name Madi
- [HT 3](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT3/index.md>): MA-DI 2 — place name, 2
- [HT 69](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT69/index.md>): MA-DI 4
- [HT 85b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85b/index.md>): MA-DI 1 — place name: the man of Maʾdi, 1
- [HT 97a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT97a/index.md>): MA-DI 5
- [PH(?) 31a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH(~3F)31a/index.md>): MA-DI \*21M 1

## Commentary

HT 97a .4 MA-DI 5 in the KA-RU list of men by place, after PA-I-TO 6 and NA-TI 4 (GORILA I 159); HT 118 MA-DI 15 at the head of the pig list; HT 85b MA-DI 1 in the KI-KI-RA-JA roster, after WA-DU-NI-MI 1; HT 3 MA-DI 2, HT 69 MA-DI 4, PH(?) 31a MA-DI *21M 1. Maʾdi, √m-ʾ-d 'to be plentiful', the Amorite name MAʾD-IJA, MA-DI-IA (Gelb 1980, no. 4453). Linear B has ma-di (KN As 603.2, Db 1168) beside the derived ma-di-qo, ]ma-di-jo[ (KH Z 3) and ma-di-je (TH Av 101, Fq 214, 254, 258, 263). Rival: the Hurrian personal name Madi 'wisdom', at Hattusa, Alalakh and Emar (de Martino 2011, 68).

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; de Martino 2011
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- de Martino, Stefano (2011), Hurrian Personal Names in the Kingdom of Ḫatti. LoGisma, Firenze (Eothen 18)

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