# RU-JA-TA-DI (Ruya-dādī)

> personal name, Ruya + dādī 'my beloved'; Ruya alone on KN Wc 26

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

- Reading: Ruya-dādī
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dawid-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/19/index.md>) 'father's brother, uncle; foster-father; honourable title; beloved'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RU (ru) · JA (ja) · TA (ta) · DI (di)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: ddy PN, syll. ta-di-e (DULAT 264); dd (I) 'loved one', 'the element /dādu/ in PNN' (DULAT 262); rwy PN, bn rwy, etym. unc. (DULAT 738)
- Amorite: AQ-BU-DA-DI ʿAqbu-Dādī (Gelb 1980 no. 884)
- Linear A: TA-DI dādī

## Attestations

- [HT Wc 3008](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3008/index.md>): WA-DI-NI RU-JA-TA-DI — personal name, Ruya + dādī 'my beloved' (Ugaritic ta-di-e for ddy); rival two names, RU-JA and TA-DI

## Commentary

HT Wc 3008 face b, four signs whole with no divider, opposite WA · DI-NI (GORILA II 74): Ruya, the Ugaritic PN rwy (DULAT 738), with dādī 'my beloved' (TA-DI), TA writing d as in ta-di-e for ddy (DULAT 264). Ruya stands alone on the roundel KN Wc 26, face a, with NI-PI on face b (GORILA II 85). Ruya is |r-w-y| 'to be well watered', with Amorite ia-ar-wi-um and ru₂-ya |rôya / rūya| in an Egyptian place name (GlOS 2, 178). Rival: two names, RU-JA and TA-DI.

## Same root

- [DU-DA-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-DA-MA/index.md>) (Dūdāma)
- [DA-DU-\*301](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-*301/index.md>) (dādu-nā-…)
- [DA-DU-MI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-MI-NE/index.md>) (dādu-Mīnō)
- [DE-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DE-DI/index.md>) (Dedī)
- [I-DA-DA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-DA/index.md>) (dādā)
- [TA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-DI/index.md>) (dādī)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Gelb; GlOS 2
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- GORILA II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- 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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