Place · Semitic

MA-DI

place name: a unit of men and livestock in the HT rosters; rival the Hurrian personal name Madi 'wisdom'

Reading
Maʾdi
Type
Place Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada, Phaistos
Attestations
6
Lexicon
MA-DI

Commentary

HT 97a .4 MA-DI 5 in the KA-RU list of men by place, after PA-I-TO 6 (GORILA I 159); HT 118 MA-DI 15 heads the pig list; HT 85b MA-DI 1 beside KI-RE-TA₂ 1. Maʾdi, √m-ʾ-d ‘to be plentiful’, the Amorite name MAʾD-IJA, MA-DI-IA (Gelb 1980, no. 4453); Linear B ma-di, ma-di-qo, ]ma-di-jo[, ma-di-je. Rival: the Hurrian personal name Madi ‘wisdom’ (de Martino 2011, 68).

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry MA-DI.

  • AmoriteMAʾD-IJA, MA-DI-IA, PN (Gelb 1980, no. 4453; cf. nos. 4454–55)
  • Linear Bma-di (KN As 603.2, Db 1168); ma-di-qo (KN Bk 806, Db 1460, Dl 930); ]ma-di-jo[ (KH Z 3); ma-di-je (TH Av 101, Fq 214, 254, 258, 263)
  • HurrianMadi PN, madi ‘wisdom’ (de Martino 2011, 68), rival
Linear A Lexicon