QE-DE-MI-NU

personal name, 'Easterner, Ancient one'

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Reading
Qēdmīnu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ḳdm ‘to precede, be in front’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎖𐎄𐎎qdmqdm ‘east’ (Huehnergard 2012, glossary); qdmy ‘ancient; ancestral’ (DULAT 684); personal name Qdmn (Astour 1965, 152)
  • Hebrewqedemqedem ‘east, ancient time’ (HALOT 1069); qadmōnî, the Kadmonites (Gen 15:19; HALOT 1071)
  • Akkadianqudmuqudmu ‘early times; front’ (CAD Q 295)

Attestations2 cited

  1. MA 1aQE-DE-MI-NU
  2. MA 1bQE-DE-MI-NU

Commentary

MA 1a and 1b, the faces of one bar from the Malia palace: I-DU-WI · *47 · QE-DE-MI-NU and A-MA · *47 · QE-DE-MI-NU (GORILA I 268–269). QE-DE-MI-NU writes Qēdmīnu, √q-d-m ‘front, east, early’ with the ē of Heb. qēdmâ ‘eastward’ and the Ishmaelite Qēdmāh (Gen 25:15; HALOT 1070), and -īnu, beside KA-DU-MA-NE Qadmān (HT 29) with -ān, the type of Amorite Qadmānum (see KA-DU-MA-NE). Astour sets Kadmos, Kadmōn and Kadmaiōn beside W-S qdm and the Ugaritic name Qdmn (Hellenosemitica 152); Heb. qadmōnî names the Kadmonites (Gen 15:19). Rival: a non-Semitic name, or a title after *47. One bar.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon