MA-KI-DE-TE

personal name, 'glory' (feminine)

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Reading
Majdat
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*magd- ‘excellence’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • SafaiticMJDT, a personal name, 6 Safaitic (Harding 1971, 528)
  • Arabicmajdmajd ‘glory, honour, nobility’ (Lane 2689)

Attestations1 cited

  1. ZA 10bMA-KI-DE-TE 5

Commentary

ZA 10b .3 MA-KI-DE-TE 5, intact, between MA-ZA 5 and SA-MA 5 in a name list (GORILA III 171). Safaitic MJDT beside MJD (Harding 1971, 528); Hebrew meged ‘excellence’ and Magdîʾēl (Gen 36:43). With ME-KI-DI (ZA 14) the feminine and masculine of one name at one site, as Harding’s MJDT and MJD. Rival: Arabian MQʿDT ‘posterior, seat’ (Harding 1971, 560), with ʿ unwritten. One document.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon