A-TA-DE

I make ready (1cs prefix form)

𐘇AAB0882 entries𐘳TAAB5976 entries𐘦DEAB4514 entries
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Reading
ʾaʿtid(u)
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ʕVtVd- ‘be ready, prepare’
Kind
Ritual
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewʿātîdʿātîd "ready, prepared"; Piel ʿattᵊdāh "make it ready" (Prov 24:27)
  • Arabicʿatadaʿatada "to prepare, make ready"

Attestations1 cited

  1. CR Zf 13DA-MA-WA-SI KA-NI-JA-MI I-JA QA-KI-SE-NU-TI A-TA-DEI make (this) ready

Commentary

CR Zf 1, the gold pin, divider-bounded, the last group after QA-KI-SE-NU-TI. ʾaʿtid(u) ‘I make ready’, 1cs prefix form of √ʿ-t-d ‘be ready, prepare’ (HALOT 901), the ʿ dropped: a-ta-de sign for sign. A suffix-form 1cs needs -t- (Heb. ʿātadtî). GORILA V’s AB45 variant table gives the final DE. Cf. AU-TA-DE (KO(?) Zf 2), inside an undivided sequence. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

CR Zf 1Crete (findspot unknown)…a-ta-de
Linear A Lexicon