# JE-DI (yedī)

> gentilic 'the Idaean' (of Mount Ida); rivals the personal name 'He knows' and the gentilic 'Judean'

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

- Reading: yedī
- Type: Gentilic; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [JE-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JE-DI/index.md>)

## 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.

## Attestations

- [HT 8a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT8a/index.md>)
- [HT 36](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT36/index.md>)
- [HT 122b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122b/index.md>)
- [HT 140](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT140/index.md>)

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