# JA-DI (Yadi)

> Hand (personal name); rivals Yadīn 'he judges', Yadiʿ 'he knows'

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

- Reading: Yadi
- 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: Phaistos
- Lexicon: [JA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-DI/index.md>)

## Commentary

Yadi 'Hand', the Amorite name IA-DI-IM (Gelb 1980, no. 3205), on a roundel with RO rōš.

## Attestations

- [PH Wc 39](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PHWc39/index.md>)

## References

- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

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