# QE-DE-MI-NU (Qēdmīnu)

> personal name, 'Easterner, Ancient one'

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

- Reading: Qēdmīnu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳdm](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2607/index.md>) 'to precede, be in front'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QE (qe) · DE (de) · MI (mi) · NU (nu)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎄𐎎 *qdm* — qdm 'east' (Huehnergard 2012, glossary); qdmy 'ancient; ancestral' (DULAT 684); personal name Qdmn (Astour 1965, 152)
- Hebrew: *qedem* — qedem 'east, ancient time' (HALOT 1069); qadmōnî, the Kadmonites (Gen 15:19; HALOT 1071)
- Akkadian: *qudmu* — qudmu 'early times; front' (CAD Q 295)

## Attestations

- [MA 1a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/MA1a/index.md>): QE-DE-MI-NU
- [MA 1b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/MA1b/index.md>): QE-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.

## Same root

- [KA-DU-MA-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-DU-MA-NE/index.md>) (Qadmān)

## In the onomasticon

- [QE-DE-MI-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/QE-DE-MI-NU/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Astour, Michael C. (1965), Hellenosemitica: An Ethnic and Cultural Study in West Semitic Impact on Mycenaean Greece. Brill
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- 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
- CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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

---

Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QE-DE-MI-NU/
Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.