Personal name · Semitic
ME-KI-DI
personal name, 'glory' (masculine)
- Reading
- Majd
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Zakros
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- ME-KI-DI
Commentary
First entry of the ZA 14 name list, ME-KI-DI 1. Majd ‘glory’, the masculine of MA-KI-DE-TE (ZA 10b), as Safaitic MJD. Rival: Ugaritic mkt ‘offering (?)’.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry ME-KI-DI.
- SafaiticMJD, a personal name, 25 Safaitic (Harding 1971, 528)
- Arabicmajdmajd ‘glory, honour, nobility’ (Lane 2689)