Personal name · Semitic

A-DE

Father (hypocoristic personal name, ʾAdday); rival the kin title ʾad 'father'

Reading
ʾAddē
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Zakros
Attestations
1
Lexicon
A-DE

Commentary

ʾAddē ‘Father’, the Ugaritic name ʾady, syll. a-da-a-a (DULAT 23), with -ay contracted to -ē. ZA 10b also counts U-*49 ʾummi ‘mother’.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry A-DE.

  • Ugaritic𐎀𐎄ʾadʾad ‘father’, par. um ‘mother’ (DULAT 16); PN ʾady, syll. a-da-a-a, ad-di-ya (DULAT 23)
  • Amoriteʔad/ʔad/ ‘lord, father’ (Huffmon APNMT 156, apud DULAT 16)
Linear A Lexicon