# O-RA₂-DI-NE (ʾŌl-dīn)

> personal name, 'the Foremost is judge' (Ugaritic PN ảwldn); rival ʾIl-dīn 'El is judge'

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

- Reading: ʾŌl-dīn
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dyn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S36/index.md>) 'to judge, govern' 1, 'judgment, legal case' 2, 'judge' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: O (o) · RA₂ (ra₂) · DI (di) · NE (ne)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: ảwldn PN, etym. unc. (DULAT 128; 4.54:9, 4.129:5); ảwl 'priority, supremacy' (DULAT 128); bʕldn PN, syll. ba-aʔ-la-da/dá-ni (DULAT 207); dn 'judgment, case, sentence' (DULAT 273)
- Arabic: ʾāla, ʾawila 'to precede, to be first' (Lane 126)
- Linear A: O-RA₂ ʾŌl, DI-NE dīn; DI-RE-DI-NA ʾaddīr-dīnā, DI-NI Dīnī

## Attestations

- [HT 6a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT6a/index.md>): O-RA₂-DI-NE 2

## Commentary

HT 6a .4 O-RA₂-DI-NE 2, all four signs whole and undotted, in a list of NI after MA-*321 10 and before KA-PA-QE 5¾ (GORILA I 13). Two elements: O-RA₂ ʾŌl 'the Foremost' < *ʾawl 'priority, supremacy', O writing ʾō < *ʾaw as in O-SU-QA-RE ʾō Sukar and RA₂ its primary value la; DI-NE dīn 'judgment' (PS *dyn-). DULAT sets ảwl beside the name ('Cf. ảwldn', DULAT 128), and bʿldn shares its last element (DULAT 207): ʾŌl stands where ʾIl and Baʿl stand in ỉldn and bʿldn. Ebla glosses GABA.GÁL with a-wa-lum, ʔawal 'priority, supremacy', and Arabic has ʔawwal 'first' (GlOS 1, 53). Rivals: ỉldn ʾIl-dīn 'El is judge' (DULAT 52), O for ʾi; ảrdn, syll. a-ra-ad-ni (DULAT 96), RA₂ for ra. One witness.

## Same root

- [DI-NA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NA-U/index.md>) (Dīnāyu)
- [DI-NA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NA-RO/index.md>) (Dānīlo / Dānīlu)
- [DI-NI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NI/index.md>) (Dīnī)
- [DA-NA-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-NA-TU/index.md>) (dānatu)
- [DI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NE/index.md>) (dīn)
- [DI-RE-DI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-RE-DI-NA/index.md>) (ʾaddīr-dīnā)

## In the onomasticon

- [O-RA₂-DI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/O-RA~E2~82~82-DI-NE/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Lane; GlOS 1
- 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 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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