ME-KI-DI

personal name, 'glory' (masculine)

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

Compared forms

  • SafaiticMJD, a personal name, 25 Safaitic (Harding 1971, 528)
  • Arabicmajdmajd ‘glory, honour, nobility’ (Lane 2689)

Attestations1 cited

  1. ZA 14ME-KI-DI 1personal name, 'glory', 1

Commentary

ZA 14 .1 ME-KI-DI 1, intact, the first entry of a name list, before *21F-*118 1 and QA-TI-JU 8 (GORILA III 181). Safaitic MJD, feminine MJDT (Harding 1971, 528); Hebrew meged ‘precious gift’ (Deut 33:13; HALOT 543). The masculine of MA-KI-DE-TE (ZA 10b). Rival: Ugaritic mkt, which DULAT queries as ‘immolation, offering’ (DULAT 539). One document.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon