God or goddess · Semitic
I-DA-DA
O Beloved!—vocative of the reduplicative divine epithet (with i- prosthesis)
- Reading
- dādā
- Type
- God or goddess Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Crete
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- I-DA-DA
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry I-DA-DA.
- Hebrewdōddōd ‘beloved’ (Song of Songs)
- Ugaritic𐎄𐎄dddd ‘love; loved one’; ydd /yadīdu/ ‘beloved’ (CUC)
- Amoritedad-dad- ‘favorite’ (Huffmon 1965, 181); dādum ‘beloved’ (Gelb 1980); Alalakh DAWD-A, DA-DA (Gelb 1980, no. 1413)
- Eblaiteda-da dādāda-da dādā ‘the beloved’, a name (Pagan 1998, row 1396)
- MariDâdâ, a name (ARM 26/1, 594)
- Akkadian (Ugarit)Dadâ, a name (Kinlaw 1967, 47)