Proto-Semitic root
*dawid-
‘father’s brother, uncle; foster-father; honourable title; beloved’
di Mino’s gloss: paternal uncle; beloved
Record 19 ↗ · SED semet 20 · Basis: SED
In Linear A7 entries
DA-DU-*301dādu-nā-…'our beloved …', the opening of a longer wordSpeculativeSemitic1DA-DU-MI-NEdādu-MīnōBeloved of Minos (compound theophoric name)SpeculativeSemitic13DDE-DIDedīpersonal name, 'my beloved'SpeculativeSemitic13DDU-DA-MADūdāmaBeloved (personal name, √d-w-d + -ma)CandidateSemitic1I-DA-DAdādāO Beloved!—vocative of the reduplicative divine epithet (with i- prosthesis)SpeculativeSemitic13DRU-JA-TA-DIRuya-dādīpersonal name, Ruya + dādī 'my beloved'SpeculativeSemitic13DTA-DIdādīmy beloved, a name and name elementSpeculativeSemitic1
Notes
Nursery word conventionalized into the triconsonantal system (OLA80 §62.2).
Reflexes20 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadiandādu OAkk (CAD D 20)gloss withheld
- Eblaiticdu-du /dūdu(m)/, da-tum /dādum/ (VE 584, 1161; Krebernik 1983, 22), da-du-du /tawdudu(m)/ (VE 584; Krebernik 1984, 207)du-du /dawd, damd, dād, dōd/ (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 152)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic7
- Mandaic Aramaicdada (DM 98)gloss withheld
- Ugariticdd (DULAT 262)gloss withheld
- Hebrewdōd (HALOT 215)pB. dōd (Ja. 283)dōdā (Kogan 2011, 235)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaicdōdā 'friend, lover, beloveduncle, father’s brother' (Ja. 283)
- Syrian Aramaicdād- (Brock 144)dādətā (Kogan 2011, 235)gloss withheld
- AramaicOff, Nab, Plm, Hatra dd (HJ 241)dwd (DNWSI 243)gloss withheld
- Amoritedādum, dawd(ān)um, damdum, dādatum (Gelb AS 21, 17)dāda (Buck 2019, 326)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicdād- (HALOT 215)gloss withheld
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic dd (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 63)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianQat dd (Ricks 40)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian8
- Mehriḥǝ-dīd (JM 75)ḥā-dīt (Kogan 2011, 235)gloss withheld
- Soqotridédo (LS 123)dédoh (Kogan 2011, 235)gloss withheld
- Harsusiḥe-dēd/ḥe-dōd (JH 26)gloss withheld
- East EthiopicSel däd (LGur. 198)gloss withheld
- Geezdud (LGz. 123)gloss withheld
- GurageMsq däd (LGur. 198)Cha dode, Eža Cha Muh dada, Enn Gye dāda, End. dēdē, Msq. dodo. Gog. däde*dade (LGur. 198)gloss withheld
- Jibbalidid (JJ 42)dít (Kogan 2011, 235)gloss withheld
- Hararidäd (LHar. 53)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.