# A-SA-DA-KA (ʾaṣdaqa) > Most Righteous (PN) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: ʾaṣdaqa - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*ṣidq-]() 'righteousness, justice' - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: A (a) · SA (sa) · DA (da) · KA (ka) - Rank: Amorite-linked appendix ## Compared forms - Sabaic: ʾṣdq, PN (Harding 1971, 51) - Amorite: ṢDQ 'be just': ṣadaqa, jaṣduq (Gelb AS 21, 34); PN ṢADAQ-AH, written ZA-DA-GA (Gelb AS 21 no. 6350) - Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎄𐎖 *ṣdq* — ṣdq (I) 'justice, legitimacy, lawful' (DULAT 768) - Hebrew: *ṣaddîq* — ṣaddîq 'just, righteous' (HALOT 1001); ṣedeq 'rightness, justice' (HALOT 1004) - Phoenician: 𐤑𐤃𐤒 *ṣdq* — ṣdq 'good, righteous, legitimate' (Krahmalkov 414) ## Attestations - [MA Wc \<5\>](): A-SA-DA-KA ## Commentary MA Wc <5>, a Mallia roundel: A-SA-DA-KẠ with a dotted unit stroke on face a, GRA+E 4 on face b, a grain context (GORILA II 88); SA is drawn damaged. ʾaṣdaqa 'Most Righteous', the ʾaqtal elative of √ṣ-d-q: SA writes the coda ṣ with a dead vowel, as A-SA-MU-NE ʾAšmūn, and KA q, the emphatics unmarked; -A is the oblique of the diptote elative (Fischer 2002, §§125a, 153a), as in I-ZU-RI-NI-TA. ʾṢDQ is a name in Lihyanite and Sabaic (Harding 1971, 51) and in Qatabanic (Aylward 2) and Ḥaḍramitic (Raybūn-Kafas/Naʿmān 123) texts (DASI). Amorite names carry the root: Ṣa-du-qum and Am-mi-ṣa-du-qá (Huffmon 1965, 256–257), ʿAMM-I+ṢADUQ-A (Gelb 1980, no. 753). Cf. Zadok (2 Sam 8:17), Zedekiah (2 Kgs 24:17), Melchizedek (Gen 14:18). Weak point: ʾṢDQ is a first-millennium Arabian name, and no Amorite, Ugaritic or Hebrew name has the elative. Rival: ha-ṣadaqa 'the Righteous', the article ha- as in A-SI-KI-RA. Rival: Hurrian aštaga 'woman', the diminutive in -(a)ga of ašte 'woman' (Wilhelm, "Hurrian," 103; Laroche 1980, 61–62), written aš-ta-ka (Meskene) and aš-da-a-ga-bi (KUB XXIX 8 IV 23): coda š with a dead A, as A-SA-MU-NE, accounts for every sign. One attestation. ## In the onomasticon - [A-SA-DA-KA](): Personal name, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; Fischer 2002; Harding 1971; GORILA II - Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven) - GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck - AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore - Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press - Fischer, Wolfdietrich (2002), A Grammar of Classical Arabic. Yale Language Series,Yale University Press - 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 II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SA-DA-KA/ 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 add28e94.