# ME-KI-DI (Majd)

> personal name, 'glory' (masculine)

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

- Reading: Majd
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*magd-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3225/index.md>) 'excellence'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: ME (me) · KI (ki) · DI (di)

## Compared forms

- Safaitic: MJD, a personal name, 25 Safaitic (Harding 1971, 528)
- Arabic: *majd* — majd 'glory, honour, nobility' (Lane 2689)

## Attestations

- [ZA 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA14/index.md>): ME-KI-DI 1 — personal 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.

## Same root

- [MA-KI-DE-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-KI-DE-TE/index.md>) (Majdat)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Harding 1971; HALOT; DULAT
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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