Personal name · Semitic

A-DU-ZA

ʾAddu-ʿazz (personal name), 'Addu is strong'; rival Hadas 'Myrtle'

Reading
ʾAddu-ʿazz
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Palaikastro
Attestations
1
Lexicon
A-DU-ZA

Commentary

ʾAddu-ʿazz ‘Addu is strong’: Addu + ʿazz (PS *ʕazVz-), the god first as in A-DU-NI-TA-NA; Ugaritic mt ʕz ‘Mot was strong’ (DULAT 194). Rival: hadas ‘myrtle’.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry A-DU-ZA.

  • Ugariticʕzʕz ‘strong’; mt ʕz bʕl ʕz, 1.6 VI 17 (DULAT 193–194)
  • HebrewʾElʿûzay, 1 Chr 12:6
  • AkkadianEnlil-ezzu, {d}en-lil₂-ez-zu (ORACC)
  • AmoriteʿAzz-ʿammi, ʿAzzu (Gelb 1980, 568)
Linear A Lexicon