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Reading
ḏarʿ(u)
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ʒVry/ʾ/ʕ- ~ *ǯVry/ʾ/ʕ 1, *ʒry/wʾ/ʕ ~ *ǯry/w/ʾ/ʕ 2 ‘seed, sowing, sown field’ 1, ‘to sow…’
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Ugariticd/ḏrʕd/ḏrʕ ‘seed, seed-grain, sowing’ (DULAT 277–278)
  • Hebrewzeraʿzeraʿ ‘seed’ (HALOT 282)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 10a*305-RU 2 ¹⁄₂seed-grain, 2½

Commentary

HT 10a .3–4 *305-RU 2½, whole and undotted at the end of .3, the side written over an erasure (GORILA I 21), in the list headed KU-NI-SU ‘emmer’. Ug. d/ḏrʕ ‘seed-grain’ (DULAT 277–278), Heb. zeraʿ, OSArb. ḏrʾ (HALOT 282), the ʿ unwritten. One attestation. See ZE.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon