Gentilic · Semitic
JE-DI
gentilic 'the Idaean' (of Mount Ida); rivals the personal name 'He knows' and the gentilic 'Judean'
- Reading
- yedī
- Type
- Gentilic Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 4
- Lexicon
- JE-DI
Commentary
A recipient on HT 8a (heading the list, OLE+KI 10), HT 36 (GRA+QE 44½) and HT 122b (heading a roster of men), and on HT 140 (OLE+KI 1½, JE damaged). Read yedī ‘the Idaean’, gentilic of Mount Ida. Rivals: the personal name yēdīʿ ‘he knows’, with ʿ unwritten; yehūdī ‘Judean’, which would be spelled JE-U-DI and is first attested some 700 years later.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry JE-DI.
- Hebrewyādyād ‘hand’ (HALOT 386), the root of Ida (see I-DA); for the rivals, Yĕdîʿăʾēl (יְדִיעֲאֵל), a y-d-ʿ name (1 Chr 11:45; 26:2), and yehūdī (יְהוּדִי) ‘Judean’
- Amoritefor the rival, JDʿ ‘to know’ as a name element (Gelb 1980, glossary); JADAʿ+JAT-UM (Gelb 1980, no. 3168); bare JID-I, written I-DI (no. 2432)
- Akkadianfor the rival, ia-ú-du ‘Judah’ (Sennacherib, 701 BCE)