Personal name · Semitic

I-DU-NE-SI

Strength is alive, the arm thrives (personal name); rival Yidu-nešše, Hurrian 'prosperity'

Reading
Yidu-naḥši
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
I-DU-NE-SI

Commentary

HT 13 .5–6, I-DU-NE-SI 5, intact, the sixth recipient in the VIN · TE list headed KA-U-DE-TA; lines .4–7 are written over an erasure (GORILA I 27). yidu ‘strength’ + naḥši ‘alive’, the Eblaite name i-du na-sa yidu-naḥša ‘strength is alive’ (Pagan 1998, row 2469). Rival: Hurrian nešše ‘prosperity’ (Laroche, GLH 181).

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry I-DU-NE-SI.

  • Eblaitei-du na-sa, yidu-naḥša ‘strength is alive’; i-du na, yidu-na ‘our strength’ (Pagan 1998, rows 2469, 2466)
  • Akkadiannaḫāšunaḫāšu ‘to prosper’ (CAD N/1 133); naḫšu ‘healthy, prosperous’, PN Na-aḫ-šum (CAD N/1 142)
  • Hurrianneššenešše ‘prospérité’, ne-eš-ši (Laroche, GLH 181), rival
Linear A Lexicon