# DA-I (dayu) > good, sufficient—commodity quality designation on oil/fat allocation tablets A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: dayu - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*day-]() 'good, sufficient' - Kind: Administrative - Language: Semitic - Signs: DA (da) · I (i) ## Compared forms - Hebrew: **day* — *day 'sufficiency, enough' (HALOT 219) - Ugaritic: *dayyu* — dy /dayyu/ 'sufficiency' (Huehnergard 2012, 145) ## Attestations - [HT 12](): DA-I 50 — total allocation, grand sum - [KH 13](): DA-I ## Commentary HT 12 closes with DA-I 50 after OLE+DI 5, *304 5, QA₂+[?]+PU 1, E 30, *118 5, CYP+E 3 and NI 1; on KH 13 DA-I 3 follows *304-CYP ⅓. dayu 'enough': Heb. day 'enough, sufficiency' (HALOT 219), Aramaic day. Rival: a total; the 50 after DA-I on HT 12 equals the sum of the entries without the fraction (Schoep 2002, 162; Pope 1960, 204). ## References - Reading: di Mino; HALOT; Schoep 2002; Pope 1960 - Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson - 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 - Schoep, Ilse (2002), The Administration of Neopalatial Crete: A Critical Assessment of the Linear A Tablets and Their Role in the Administrative Process. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca (Minos Suplemento 17) - Pope, Maurice (1960), The Cretulae and the Linear A Accounting System. Annual of the British School at Athens,55,British School at Athens,200–210 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-I/ 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 50525edd.