Personal name · Semitic
PA-DE
personal name 'redeemer' (p-d-y); recipient of wine
- Reading
- Padī
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 3
- Lexicon
- PA-DE
Commentary
Gordon direct match. Part of consistent HT work gang alongside DI-NA-U (Dīnāyu), Kubanu, Yamidare (Egyptian theophoric). Receives 5.75 on HT9a and 3 on HT9b, and appears in a personnel headcount (1 on HT122a). NWS name with Philistine parallels. Ugaritic PN pdy (II), syll. pa-di, pa-di-ya (DULAT 653); Padi, king of Ekron (ORACC). Rival: Knossian divine recipient pa-de (DMic II).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry PA-DE.
- Eblaiteba-ti pādība-ti pādī ‘ransomer’, ba-ti-a (Pagan 1998, rows 1132–1133)
- Ugariticpdy (II), a name, syll. pa-di/dì-ya, etym. unc. (DULAT 653); pādiy ‘redeemer, ransomer’ (GlOS 2, 123)