A-DI-KI-TE-TE

O Diktaean (f.), the feminine nisbe of Dikte

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Reading
ʾa-Diqqitīt
Confidence
Probable
Root
*diḳ(ḳ)- ‘be small’ 1, ‘be thin, fine’ 2
Kind
Divine
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎄𐎖𐎚dqtdqt ‘female head of small cattle for sacrifice’, a ewe or she-goat (Gordon UT §19.695, cited by Astour 1966, 283 n. 74); DN dqt, KTU 1.102:8 (Astour 1966, 283–84; DULAT 276)
  • Hebrewשְׂעִירָהcf. śəʿîrāhcf. śəʿîrāh (שְׂעִירָה) ‘she-goat’ and śəʿîrîm (שְׂעִירִים) ‘goat-demons’ (Lev 17:7, 2 Chr 11:15)

Attestations2 cited

  1. PK Za 113DA-TA-I-*301-WA-E A-DI-KI-TE-TE-[?]O Diktaean of the Sanctuary
  2. PK Za 12A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA A-DI-KI-TE-[[the Diktaean …]

Commentary

PK Za 11, A-DI-KI-TE-TE-[DU-PU₂]-RE: the Palaikastro form of JA-DI-KI-TU (Diktu, Dikte), whose cognates it shares. TE-TE is the feminine nisbe -īt, ʾa-Diqqitīt ‘the Diktaean’, E for i: JA-DI-KI-TU ~ JA-DI-KI-TE-TE as *312-TA ~ *312-TE-TE (Davis 2026, 45), the base T kept as in SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA beside SU-KI-RI-TA; Heb. ʾašdôdît, yĕhûdît (Neh 13:24); LB di-ka-ta-jo Diktaios (KN Fp 1). Every TE-TE form is one sign group with dubur (PK Za 8, PK Za 11, PK Za 15), Diqqitīt dubur ‘the Diktaean of the sanctuary’. PK Za 12 a: A-DI-KI-TẸ-[TE], TE damaged, no divider, the surface after it lost (GORILA IV 36–38). Rival: Davis parses A- as a prepositional prefix, ‘to, for the Diktaian’ (Davis 2026, in Salgarella and Petrakis eds., The Wor(l)ds of Linear A, 43–60). Weak point: E writes i twice, and no held Semitic form of the name carries the nisbe.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).

Linear A Lexicon