# A-PA₃-DI (ʿAbdī)

> personal name, ʿAbdī 'my servant'; rival the head of an ʿAbdi-DN name

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

- Reading: ʿAbdī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʕVbd-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2739/index.md>) 'to serve, work; servant'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · PA₃ (pa₃) · DI (di)
- Rank: #68 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *ʕbd* — ʕbd (I) 'servant, slave' (DULAT 136); ʕbdy PN, syll. ÌR-ya (DULAT 141)
- Amarna: ÌR-a-ši-ir-ta ʿAbdi-Aširta (EA 71:17)

## Attestations

- [PK Zb 26](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZb26/index.md>): A-PA₃-DI — personal name, ʿAbdī 'my servant' or ʿAbdi-[DN] 'servant of [DN]'

## Commentary

PK Zb 26, a pithos sherd written retrograde, A-PA₃-DI[ broken after DI (Younger, Linear A Texts). ʿAbdī, as the Ugaritic PN ʿbdy, syll. ÌR-ya (DULAT 141), or the head of an ʿAbdi-DN name, as ʿbdyrḫ (DULAT 141) and Amarna ÌR-a-ši-ir-ta (EA 71:17). Amorite ḫa-ab-di-ia ʿabdiya at Tuttul (Buck 2018, 328). One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [A-PA₃-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-PA~E2~82~83-DI/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- 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
- Buck, Mary Ellen (2018), The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: The Historical Origins of the Bronze Age Polity of Ugarit Based upon Linguistic, Literary, and Archaeological Evidence. 

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