Gentilic · Semitic

DU-RU-WI

the Levite (ethnonymic designation)

Reading
ḏu-luwwī
Type
Gentilic Candidate
Language
Semitic Candidate
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
DU-RU-WI

Commentary

ḏu ‘the one of’ + luwwī ‘joined’ (√l-w-y, the u of the D-stem, Ebla lu-wu, GlOS 2, 19).

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry DU-RU-WI.

  • Hebrewlēwîlēwî ‘Levi; Levite’ (HALOT 523)
  • Ugariticd determinative-relatived determinative-relative ‘the one(s) of, he who’ (DULAT 252)
  • Arabicḏūḏū ‘possessor of, he of’ (Lane 984)
  • AmoriteLWJ ‘surround, accompany’: lājum, lījum (Gelb AS 21, 24)
Linear A Lexicon