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dalut
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*dal-t- ‘door’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎄𐎍𐎚dltdlt "door" (Huehnergard 2012)
  • Hebrewdēlet דֶּלֶת
  • Akkadiandaltu

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 34DA-JU-TE SI-*516

Commentary

HT 34 .1 DA-JU-TE · SI-*516 ·, the header of a grain tablet with E · GRA 200 and KI-RO 30. With JU at the proposed value lu, DA-JU-TE writes d-l-t: Ugaritic dlt /daltu/ ‘door’ (Huehnergard 2012, 41), BH dēlet, Akk. daltu. A header in first position names a location or distribution point: the door, doorway. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon