# DA-KA (dagu)

> fish

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

- Reading: dagu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*dāg-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2464/index.md>) '(large) fish'
- Kind: Animal
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · KA (ka)
- Rank: #88 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎂 *dg* — dg (I) 'fish' (DULAT 264)
- Hebrew: *dāg* — dāg 'fish' (HALOT 213)

## Attestations

- [HT Wa 1001](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1001/index.md>): DA-KA
- [HT Wa 1002](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1002/index.md>): DA-KA
- [HT Wa 1003](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1003/index.md>): DA-KA
- [HT Wa 1004](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1004/index.md>): DA-KA
- [HT Wa 1005](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1005/index.md>): DA-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.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts

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