Personal name · Semitic

O-RA₂-DI-NE

personal name, 'the Foremost is judge' (Ugaritic PN ảwldn); rival ʾIl-dīn 'El is judge'

Reading
ʾŌl-dīn
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
O-RA₂-DI-NE

Commentary

HT 6a .4 O-RA₂-DI-NE 2, in a list of NI (GORILA I 13). ʾŌl-dīn, sign for sign the Ugaritic PN ảwldn (DULAT 128): ʾŌl ‘the Foremost’, Ugaritic ảwl ‘priority, supremacy’ (DULAT 128), Arabic ʾāla, ʾawila ‘to precede, to be first’ (Lane 126); dīn ‘judgment’, as in bʕldn (DULAT 207). Rival: ỉldn ʾIl-dīn ‘El is judge’ (DULAT 52). See the lexicon entries O-RA₂-DI-NE, O-RA₂ and DI-NE.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry O-RA₂-DI-NE.

  • Ugariticảwldn PN, etym. unc. (DULAT 128; 4.54:9, 4.129:5); ảwl ‘priority, supremacy’ (DULAT 128); bʕldn PN, syll. ba-aʔ-la-da/dá-ni (DULAT 207); dn ‘judgment, case, sentence’ (DULAT 273)
  • Arabicʾāla, ʾawila ‘to precede, to be first’ (Lane 126)
  • Linear AO-RA₂ ʾŌl, DI-NE dīn; DI-RE-DI-NA ʾaddīr-dīnā, DI-NI Dīnī
Linear A Lexicon