Personal name · Semitic
DA-MI-NU
personal name, 'He of the Portion' (ḏā + √m-n-y); rival √m-n-n 'He of the Favor'
- Reading
- Ḏā-Mīnu
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- DA-MI-NU
Commentary
HT 117a .8 DA-MI-NU 1, whole and undotted, in the second list headed SA-TA, before DA-NE-KU-TI 1 (GORILA I 197). Ḏā-Mīnu: ḏā ‘the one of’ + MI-NU (√m-n-y ‘allot’, √m-n-n ‘favor’), ‘He of the Portion’, a ‘he of X’ name like Amorite Zu-i-la ‘He of God’ (Gelb 1980, no. 6596); rival Ḏimenu, the Ugaritic personal name ḏmn, syll. ZI-me-nu (DULAT 283). Compare Dushara, Nabataean dwšrʾ ‘He of the Šarā’ (Al-Jallad 2022, 95–96). Linear B da-mi-ni-jo, a shepherd at Knossos in the D series (DMic I); Woudhuizen 2016, 217 no. 11.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry DA-MI-NU.