# TA-DI (dādī)

> my beloved, a name and name element

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

- Reading: 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: TA (ta) · DI (di)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎄 *dd* — dd (I) 'love', 'loved one' (DULAT 262); ddy PN, syll. ta-di-e, da-de₄-ya (DULAT 264)
- Hebrew: דּוֹדַי Dōday PN (1 Chr 27:4)
- Mari: di-di Didi PN, a carpenter (ARM 21 397; ARCHIBAB T16508)
- Amorite: da-di-i, dādī 'my beloved', a Sutean (ARM 23 341; Buck 2018, 327)
- Eblaite: da-du, dādu 'beloved', PN (Pagan 1998, row 1401)

## 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

TA-DI within RU-JA-TA-DI Ruya-dādī (HT Wc 3008). The Ugaritic PN ddy, syll. ta-di-e and da-de₄-ya (DULAT 264); Hebrew Dōday (1 Chr 27:4) and Mari di-di, a carpenter (ARM 21 397). One witness. See DE-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)
- [RU-JA-TA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RU-JA-TA-DI/index.md>) (Ruya-dādī)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Buck 2018; Pagan 1998
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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
- Buck, Mary Ellen (2018), The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: The Historical Origins of the Bronze Age Polity of Ugarit Based upon Linguistic, Literary, and Archaeological Evidence. 

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