# A-DE (ʾAddē) > Father (hypocoristic personal name, ʾAdday); rival the kin title ʾad 'father' A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: ʾAddē - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*ʾad-]() 'father' 1, 'lord' 2 - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: A (a) · DE (de) ## Compared forms - Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎄 *ʾad* — ʾad 'father', par. um 'mother' (DULAT 16); PN ʾady, syll. a-da-a-a, ad-di-ya (DULAT 23) - Amorite: *ʔad* — /ʔad/ 'lord, father' (Huffmon APNMT 156, apud DULAT 16) ## Attestations - [ZA 10b](): A-DE 4 — Father (hypocoristic personal name, ʾAdday); rival the kin title ʾad 'father' ## Commentary ZA 10b .4 A-DE 4, whole, between SA-MA 5 and A-MI-TA ʾamita 'handmaid' 3, in a list that also counts U-*49 ʾummi 'mother' 6 (GORILA III 171). ʾAddē, Ugaritic ʾady, syll. a-da-a-a (DULAT 23): hypocoristic -ay contracted to -ē, the geminate unwritten. Rival: the kin title ʾad 'father' (DULAT 16), as U-*49 is 'mother' in the same list. One witness. ## In the onomasticon - [A-DE](): Personal name, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; DULAT - 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 III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DE/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.