# \*dawid- 'father's brother, uncle; foster-father; honourable title; beloved'

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: paternal uncle; beloved
- SED semet 20
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/d/19_father_s_brother_uncle_foster_father_honourable.md

## In Linear A

- [DA-DU-\*301](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-*301/index.md>) (dādu-nā-…): 'our beloved …', the opening of a longer word
- [DA-DU-MI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-MI-NE/index.md>) (dādu-Mīnō): Beloved of Minos (compound theophoric name)
- [DE-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DE-DI/index.md>) (Dedī): personal name, 'my beloved'; rival the Hurrian name dḏy
- [DU-DA-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-DA-MA/index.md>) (Dūdāma): Beloved (personal name, √d-w-d + -ma); rival the Aegean name of the Keftiu board and Linear B di-du-me
- [I-DA-DA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-DA/index.md>) (dādā): O Beloved!—vocative of the reduplicative divine epithet (with i- prosthesis)
- [RU-JA-TA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RU-JA-TA-DI/index.md>) (Ruya-dādī): personal name, Ruya + dādī 'my beloved'; Ruya alone on KN Wc 26
- [TA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-DI/index.md>) (dādī): my beloved, a name and name element

## Notes

Nursery word conventionalized into the triconsonantal system (OLA80 §62.2).

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: dādu OAkk (CAD D 20) (gloss withheld)
- Eblaitic: du-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)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Mandaic Aramaic: dada (DM 98) (gloss withheld)
- Ugaritic: dd (DULAT 262) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: dōd (HALOT 215); pB. dōd (Ja. 283); dōdā (Kogan 2011, 235) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: dōdā 'friend, lover, beloved; uncle, father's brother' (Ja. 283)
- Syrian Aramaic: dād- (Brock 144); dādətā (Kogan 2011, 235) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: Off, Nab, Plm, Hatra dd (HJ 241); dwd (DNWSI 243) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: dādum, dawd(ān)um, damdum, dādatum (Gelb AS 21, 17); dāda (Buck 2019, 326) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: dād- (HALOT 215) (gloss withheld)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic dd (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 63) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Qat dd (Ricks 40) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: ḥǝ-dīd (JM 75); ḥā-dīt (Kogan 2011, 235) (gloss withheld)
- Soqotri: dédo (LS 123); dédoh (Kogan 2011, 235) (gloss withheld)
- Harsusi: ḥe-dēd/ḥe-dōd (JH 26) (gloss withheld)
- East Ethiopic: Sel däd (LGur. 198) (gloss withheld)
- Geez: dud (LGz. 123) (gloss withheld)
- Gurage: Msq däd (LGur. 198); Cha dode, Eža Cha Muh dada, Enn Gye dāda, End. dēdē, Msq. dodo. Gog. däde; *dade (LGur. 198) (gloss withheld)
- Jibbali: did (JJ 42); dít (Kogan 2011, 235) (gloss withheld)
- Harari: däd (LHar. 53) (gloss withheld)

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