Personal name · Semitic
DU-ME-DI
Dūmatī (personal name—'the Enduring One', √dwm hypocoristic)
- Reading
- Dūmatī
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- DU-ME-DI
Commentary
HT 19, DU-ME-DI 43½ after SA-RO, the slot SI-DA-RE 5 holds on the same scribe’s HT 17. Dūmatī ‘the enduring one’, √d-w-m with hypocoristic -ī; cf. Amorite Dūmat-An (DU-MA-TA-AN, Gelb, AS 21, no. 1581), Hebrew Dūmāh (Gen 25:14). Rival: dimtu ‘tower; estate’ (Akk. dimtum, Ug. dmt). One attestation.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry DU-ME-DI.
- AmoriteDūmat-An (DU-MA-TA-AN), Gelb 1980, no. 1581—u-vocalized dūmat- name element
- Hebrewדּוּמָה Dūmāh, Ishmaelite eponym (Gen 25:14); cf. Dūmat al-Jandal
- Arabiandmt / dwmt / dymt / dwmn name cluster under dm ‘enduring’ (Harding 1971, 242)
- Sabaicdwmdwm ‘lasting, permanent’; dwmm ‘forever’ (Beeston et al. 1982, 36; Biella 1982, 81)
- Arabic√d-w-m√d-w-m ‘to endure, continue’ (9 Quranic occurrences)
Outside the corpus
am_gelb_n_01581