# I-DU-NE-SI (Yidu-naḥši)

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

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Yidu-naḥši
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [I-DU-NE-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DU-NE-SI/index.md>)

## 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).

## Attestations

- [HT 13](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT13/index.md>)

## References

- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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