Personal name · Semitic

KA-DU-MA-NE

the Easterner, √q-d-m + -ān (Gordon: Cadmos + -ān)

Reading
Qadmān
Type
Personal name Confirmed
Language
Semitic Confirmed
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
KA-DU-MA-NE

Commentary

Reading from the lexicon (Gordon 1966).

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry KA-DU-MA-NE.

  • Amoriteqadmānumqadmānum ‘eastern’ (Gelb AS 21, 29); PN QADM-AN-UM (Gelb AS 21 no. 1704)
  • Hebrewqadmōnîqadmōnî ‘eastern’; haqqadmōnî ‘the Kadmonites (easterners)’, Gen 15:19 (HALOT 1071)
  • Ugaritic𐎖𐎄𐎎qdmqdm (I) ‘front; the East’ (DULAT 683)
  • Akkadianqudmu, qadmu ‘early times; front’ (CAD Q 295)
Linear A Lexicon