# DA-JU-TE (dalut)

> door, doorway

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

- Reading: dalut
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*dal-t-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1120/index.md>) 'door'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · JU (ju) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎍𐎚 *dlt* — dlt "door" (Huehnergard 2012)
- Hebrew: dēlet דֶּלֶת
- Akkadian: daltu

## Attestations

- [HT 34](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT34/index.md>): DA-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.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Huehnergard 2012
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson

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