# MI-DA-NI (mitāni)

> loins, hip meat—choice cut on sacrificial fat allocation tablet

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

- Reading: mitāni
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*matn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1977/index.md>) 'sinew, tendon'
- Kind: Body part
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MI (mi) · DA (da) · NI (ni)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *māṯnayim* — māṯnayim 'loins, hips' (Deut 33:11; Exod 28:42)
- Akkadian: *matnu* — matnu 'sinew, tendon' (CAD M/1 412)
- Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎚𐎐𐎚 *mtnt* — mtnt 'loin', a cult term (GlOS 2, 59)
- Arabic: matn, pl. mitān (Lane 3017)

## Attestations

- [HT 41a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT41a/index.md>): MI-DA-NI PA-JA 2 double mina — loins, hip meat

## Commentary

HT 41a, unquantified before PA-JA 2 on a tablet of *304 (fat) allocations: MI-DA-NI PA-JA 2, a weight. Heb. māṯnayim 'loins'. Ebla writes matn 'tendon' SA.ŠU = ma-da-nu, with DA for t (GlOS 2, 59). MI writes the i of the plural, as in Arabic mitān (Lane 3017). Rival: a heading or title before PA-JA. One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD M/1: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1977), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 10, M, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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