Personal name · Semitic
DE-DI
personal name, 'my beloved'; rival the Hurrian name dḏy
- Reading
- Dedī
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- DE-DI
Commentary
HT 94b .2 DE-DI 1, in the KI-RO list of five one-unit entries (GORILA I 153). Dedī ‘my beloved’, as the Ugaritic PN ddy, syll. da-de₄-ya (DULAT 264), and Bin-Dadeya at Ugarit (Kinlaw 1967, 37). Rival: the Hurrian name dḏy, syll. ti-še-ia (DULAT 264). See the lexicon entry.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry DE-DI.
- Ugariticddy PN, syll. DUMU da-de₄-ya, DUMU du-da-a-ya, da-dá-a, ta-di-e (DULAT 264); ¹da-di Dadi, ¹bin-da-de₄-ya Bin-Dadeya (Kinlaw 1967, 47, 37)
- Hebrewדּוֹדַי Dōday PN (1 Chr 27:4)
- Amoriteda-di-i, dādī ‘my beloved’, a Sutean (Buck 2018, 327)
- Hurrian (rival)dḏy PN, syll. ti-še-ia, te-še-ia (DULAT 264)