Personal name · Semitic
RI-DA-U
Ridāyu 'Helper, Escort' (personal name, hypocoristic)
- Reading
- Ridāyu
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Lachish
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- RI-DA-U
Commentary
LACH Za 1 ]-MI(?) · RI-DA-U · SE ¾, a limestone vessel from Tel Lachish (Finkelberg, Uchitel and Ussishkin 1996, 195–203), in the frame of KN Zb 27 DI-NA-U · VIN 17. Arabic ridʾ ‘helper’ (Lane 1065); Sabaic, Qatabanic RDʾ (Harding 1971, 275). Rival: a vessel or contents name. See the lexicon entry.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry RI-DA-U.
- Arabicridʾridʾ ‘a helper, an aider’ (Lane 1065); ridʾan, Q 28:34
- Sabaic, QatabanicRDʾ, personal name, ‘to aid, support’ (Harding 1971, 275)
- Geezradʾradʾ ‘help, helper’, radāʾi ‘helper’ (Dillmann)
- Eblaite|r-d-ʔ/y||r-d-ʔ/y| ‘to lead’ in names: rí-dam-ma-lik, ìr-da-um, ìr-da-ma-lik (GlOS 2, 156)