Title · Semitic
WA-DU-NI-MI
(to) the lord / lords—recipient entry; written only as WA-DU-NI-MI 'and (to) the lord(s)'
- Reading
- ʾadunim / ʾadunīm
- Type
- Title Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 2
- Lexicon
- DU-NI-MI
Commentary
HT 6b, HT 85b, written with WA- ‘and’. See the lexicon entry DU-NI-MI.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry DU-NI-MI.
- Amoriteʾadun- in PNs: ʾADUN-UM A-DU-NU-UM (Gelb AS 21 no. 199); LA+ʾADON-IM LA-DU-NIM, genitive (no. 4246, Mari); A-du-na-dIM (Huffmon APNM p. 20). Huffmon p. 159: the names favour Albright’s *ʾadun- ‘lord’ over Gelb’s *ʾadān-
- AmarnaAduna, ruler of Irqata (EA 75:25; EA 140:10); Moran 1992: 380 ‘WS hypo. "father" or "lord"’
- Ugariticʔadānuʾadn /ʔadānu/ ‘father, lord’; PN A-du-ni-dU (PRU III 15.42 ii 20′, via Huffmon p. 159)
- Hebrewאָדוֹן ʾādôn, pl. אֲדֹנִים ʾădōnîm (< *ʾadān- by the Canaanite shift)