# WI-NA-DU (Winadu)

> Inatos (place name on the south coast; Linear B wi-na-to)

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

- Reading: Winadu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Aegean, Aegean substrate
- Signs: WI (wi) · NA (na) · DU (du)

## Compared forms

- Linear B: wi-na-to, a place, KN As 604.2, 604.3, after a man's name with VIR 1 (DMic II 432: *Ϝίνατος, Ἴνατος)

## Attestations

- [KH 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH5/index.md>): WI-NA-DU \*301-NA — Inatos, first word of the second heading

## Commentary

KH 5 .3 WI-NA-DU · *301̣-NA ·, the head of the second section, over KU-PA-ZU CYP 3 and figs 2, as A-DA-KI-SI-KA · A-RA-U-DA · heads the first; intact, no dots (GORILA III 25). An entity slot in a transfer (Hogan, in Salgarella and Petrakis, The Wor(l)ds of Linear A, 81). Linear B wi-na-to, a place on KN As 604.2–3 in the slot of ra-su-to and pu-so: *Ϝίνατος, Ἴνατος on the south coast, modern Tsoúdsouro (DMic II 432). DU for the t of -to, stops unmarked for voice. Younger rejects the identification, Inatos lying too far for Khania to have controlled it, and notes dedications in its Eileithyia cave from the Neopalatial period on (Younger, Linear A Texts); A-RA-U-DA, Arwad, stands on the same tablet. Rival: wi + Nadūb, the Amorite name NA-DU-BU-UM (Gelb 1980, no. 4956), with WI a conjunction and b unwritten. Place before party, as in A-RA-JU-U-DE-ZA, Ḥudaṯu of ʾArāyu (HT 122b); the first head runs party then origin, A-DA-KI-SI-KA of Arwad. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [WI-NA-DU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/WI-NA-DU/index.md>): Place, Aegean substrate

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DMic II
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- DMic II: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. II (CSIC 1993). 
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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