DA-KA

fish

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Reading: dagu
Confidence: Candidate
Root: *dāg- ‘(large) fish’
Kind: Animal
Language: Semitic
Rank: #88 of the top 100

Compared forms

Ugaritic𐎄𐎂dgdg (I) ‘fish’ (DULAT 264)
Hebrewdāgdāg ‘fish’ (HALOT 213)

Attestations5 cited

HT Wa 1001DA-KA
HT Wa 1002DA-KA
HT Wa 1003DA-KA
HT Wa 1004DA-KA
HT Wa 1005DA-KA

Commentary

The sole word on five Haghia Triada nodules (HT Wa 1001–1005), a commodity label. Heb. dāg ‘fish’ (דָּג), Ug. dg; KA writes g, as the velar series does not mark voicing.

On the 3D inscriptions

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