# A-TA-DE (ʾaʿtid(u))

> I make ready (1cs prefix form)

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

- Reading: ʾaʿtid(u)
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʕVtVd-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2962/index.md>) 'be ready, prepare'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · TA (ta) · DE (de)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *ʿātîd* — ʿātîd "ready, prepared"; Piel ʿattᵊdāh "make it ready" (Prov 24:27)
- Arabic: *ʿatada* — ʿatada "to prepare, make ready"

## Attestations

- [CR Zf 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/CRZf1/index.md>): A-MA-WA-SI KA-NI-JA-MI I-JA QA-KI-SE-NU-TI A-TA-DE — I 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.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT
- GORILA V: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1985), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 5: Addenda, corrigenda, concordances, index et planches des signes (GORILA V). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 5); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- 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

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