Personal name · Semitic
DU-SU-NI
personal name, 'antelope'
- Reading
- Dišon
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
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- Lexicon
- DU-SU-NI
Commentary
A recipient in the HT 108 grain list under KI-RE-TA-NA, DU-SU-NI 4[. Dišon ‘antelope’, as Hebrew Dîšôn. Rival: a Hurrian name in -nni.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry DU-SU-NI.
- HebrewDîšôn, Horite and Edomite clan, wədîšôn wəʾēṣer wədîšān (Gen 36:21); dîšôn ‘aurochs, antelope’, among the clean animals (Deut 14:5) (HALOT 221)