# WI-DI-NA (Widdinā)

> personal name, 'our Beloved'

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

- Reading: Widdinā
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*wad-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/993/index.md>) 'love, want'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: WI (wi) · DI (di) · NA (na)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Sabaic: *ydd* — ydd 'love'; wdd (Biella 1982, 121); mwd 'friend' (Beeston 1982, 156)
- Amorite: *JADID* — JADID 'dear', IA-DI-DA, IA-DI-DU-UM (Gelb 1980, nos. 3183–3192)
- Hebrew: יָדִיד *yādîd* — yādîd (יָדִיד) 'beloved' (HALOT 389)
- Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎄𐎄 *ydd* — ydd 'loved' (DULAT 943)
- Arabic: وَدَّ *wadda* — wadda (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)

## Attestations

- [HT 28b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT28b/index.md>): WI-DI-NA OLE+DI 3 — our 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.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Ibn al-Kalbi, Hisham; Faris, Nabih Amin (tr.) (1952), The Book of Idols: Being a Translation from the Arabic of the Kitāb al-Aṣnām. Princeton University Press
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Beeston, A.F.L., M.A. Ghul, W.W. Müller & J. Ryckmans (1982), Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Peeters / Librairie du Liban
- Biella: Biella, Joan Copeland (1982), Dictionary of Old South Arabic: Sabaean Dialect. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 25)
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London

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