- Reading
- Widdinā
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- *wad- ‘love, want’
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- Amorite-linked appendix
Compared forms
- Sabaicyddydd ‘love’; wdd (Biella 1982, 121); mwd ‘friend’ (Beeston 1982, 156)
- AmoriteJADIDJADID ‘dear’, IA-DI-DA, IA-DI-DU-UM (Gelb 1980, nos. 3183–3192)
- Hebrewיָדִידyādîdyādîd (יָדִיד) ‘beloved’ (HALOT 389)
- Ugaritic𐎊𐎄𐎄yddydd ‘loved’ (DULAT 943)
- Arabicوَدَّwaddawadda (وَدَّ) ‘to love’, inf. n. wudd, widd, wadd; widād ‘love’ (Lane 2931); names wdn, wdnt (Harding 1971, 639), wdd, wddʾl (637); Wadd, a god (Faris 1952, 9)
Attestations1 cited
- HT 28bWI-DI-NA OLE+DI 3our Beloved (PN, widd 'love')
Commentary
HT 28b: WI-DI-NA OLE+DI 3, VIN 3¼, after PU-RA₂ and JA-*21F, each with its own entry. widd ‘love’, the i-form of √w-d-d (Lane 2931), + -i- and the 1cp -nā, as PA₃-NI-NA banīna ‘our builder’ and Amorite I-LU-NA ‘our god’ (Gelb 1980, no. 2555); dd unwritten. Initial w- where Amorite (JADID, Gelb 1980, nos. 3183–3192), Ugaritic (ydd) and Hebrew (yādîd) have y-. Rival: Wadd, a god (Faris 1952, 9; Q 71:23), which needs WI for wa. Cf. WA-DI-NI (HT Wc 3007). One attestation. See WI-TE-JA-MU.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.