# DA-MI-NU (Ḏā-Mīnu)

> personal name, 'He of the Portion' (ḏā + √m-n-y); rival √m-n-n 'He of the Favor'

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Ḏā-Mīnu
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [DA-MI-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-MI-NU/index.md>)

## 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.

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>)

## References

- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- Woudhuizen, Fred C. (2016), Documents in Minoan, Luwian, Semitic, and Pelasgian. Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society, Amsterdam; Publications of the Henri Frankfort Foundation 14
- 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
- Al-Jallad, Ahmad (2022), The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions. Brill (Ancient Languages and Civilizations 1; ISBN 9789004504271 ebook; open access CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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