# \*305-RU (ḏarʿ(u))

> seed-grain

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ḏarʿ(u)
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʒVry/ʾ/ʕ- ~ \*ǯVry/ʾ/ʕ 1, \*ʒry/wʾ/ʕ ~ \*ǯry/w/ʾ/ʕ 2](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1815/index.md>) 'seed, sowing, sown field' 1, 'to sow, cultivate' 2
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*305 · RU (ru)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *d/ḏrʕ* — d/ḏrʕ 'seed, seed-grain, sowing' (DULAT 277–278)
- Hebrew: *zeraʿ* — zeraʿ 'seed' (HALOT 282)

## Attestations

- [HT 10a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT10a/index.md>): \*305-RU 2 ¹⁄₂ — seed-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.

## Same root

- [ZE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZE/index.md>) (zēru)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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