# U-DI-MI (ʾUdmī)

> the Udumite—man of Udum (Kirta's city), 'red (land)'

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

- Reading: ʾUdmī
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*(ʾa-)dām-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1844/index.md>) 'red'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · DI (di) · MI (mi)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: udm, a town, Kirta's city (DULAT 18); udmy 'Udumite' (DULAT 19)

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>): U-DI-MI 1 — the Udumite, a man of Udum (Kirta's city)

## Commentary

HT 117a: U-DI-MI 1, the seventh of the ten men in KU-RO 10, on the list with U-SU ʾUšu (mainland Tyre); the reverse labels men by origin (DI-KI-SE, HT 117b). ʾUdmī 'the Udumite': Udum, Kirta's city, Ugaritic udm rbt 'Udum the great' (KTU 1.14 III 30), Amarna ᵘʳᵘú-du-mu (EA 256:24) (DULAT 18–19). DI writes the d of the -dm- cluster with the vowel of MI, as KI writes the k of -kr- in SU-KI-RI-TA Sukrita; Ugaritic udm, udmy. udm is *ʾudum-, the form of Hebrew ʾēdōm (UVST 275 n. 39), Edom, '? orig. the area distinguished by red soil' (HALOT 12); HALOT 16 reads Adami-nekeb as 'red (place) at the pass', with a queried Ugaritic udm. One attestation. See U-SU.

## In the onomasticon

- [U-DI-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/U-DI-MI/index.md>): Place or gentilic, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; HALOT; Huehnergard 2008
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- Huehnergard, John (2008), Ugaritic Vocabulary in Syllabic Transcription, revised edition. Harvard Semitic Studies 32, Eisenbrauns
- 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

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