# A-DI (ʿadi)

> until, as far as (preposition)

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

- Reading: ʿadi
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʿadi/\*qadu(m)](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S72/index.md>) 'until, as long as; faced with, alongside'
- Kind: Particle
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · DI (di)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *ʿad* — ʿd /ʿad(ē)/ 'up to, as far as, until' (Huehnergard 2012)
- Hebrew: עַד *ʿad* — ʿad (עַד) 'until'; ʿad ʾăšer dāq 'until it was fine' (Exod 32:20, Deut 9:21)
- Phoenician: 𐤏𐤃 *ʿd* — ʿd 'as far as, up to', Phoenician and Punic (Krahmalkov 2000, 360)

## Attestations

- [KN Zc 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZc6/index.md>): A-DI DA-KI-TI-PA-KU NI-JA-NU — until

## Commentary

KN Zc 6 .2 opens with A-DI after .1 QI-TI-RI and governs DA-KI-TI: ʿadi daqqati '(ground) until fine', as Hebrew grinds the golden calf ʿad ʾăšer-dāq 'until it was fine' (Exod 32:20; Deut 9:21); Phoenician ʿd 'as far as, until' (Krahmalkov 2000, 360). Evans (PoM I 615 n. 1) reports a dividing mark before DA, which GORILA IV 121 does not print. Initial A- writes ʿa-, the ʿ unwritten. One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Krahmalkov 2000
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- PoM I: Evans, Arthur J. (1921), The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos. Volume I: The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages. I,Macmillan and Co., Limited, London

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