# GRA

> dagān 'grain, cereal'

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

- Reading: none proposed
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*dVng(ʷ)- 1 ~ \*dagan- 2](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2315/index.md>) 'beans' 1, 'corn, grain' 2
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: GRA
- Rank: #47 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎂𐎐 *dgn* — dgn (I) 'grain, wheat' (DULAT 265)
- Hebrew: *dāgān* — dāgān 'grain, corn' (HALOT 214)
- Phoenician: 𐤃𐤂𐤍 *dgn* — dgn 'grain' (Krahmalkov 146)

## Attestations

- [HT 133](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT133/index.md>): A-DU TE GRA+DA 55
- [HT 92](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT92/index.md>): A-DU GRA 680
- [HT 86a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT86a/index.md>): KU-NI-SU GRA+K+L 20
- [HT 99a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT99a/index.md>): GRA+QE
- [HT 21](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT21/index.md>): PI-TA-KA-SE TE GRA 161
- [HT 40](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT40/index.md>): NU-DU-\*331 TE GRA 207
- [ARKH 3a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH3a/index.md>): \]-KA-NE GRA\[ — grain
- [KH 104](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH104/index.md>): SE GRA A707 PA-\*47\[ — grain (logogram)

## Commentary

A commodity logogram, grain: 60 standalone and 52 in compounds, on 47 tablets at 5 sites; Linear B uses it too. dagān 'grain': Heb. דָּגָן, Ug. dgn, Ph. dgn. In GRA+DA (HT 133) DA is the phonetic complement for the da- of dagān, and DA-KA on five HT Wa nodules writes daga(n). Four times it stands with A-DU, the Storm God, an agricultural and cultic setting. See DA-KU-NA.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- 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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