# KA-\*305 (ka-ḏā)

> thus, likewise (ditto heading)

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

- Reading: ka-ḏā
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kV](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3266/index.md>) 'like, as, in the manner of' + [\*ḏī-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0877/index.md>) 'he who, that which' (masculine demonstrative/relative)
- Kind: Particle
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · \*305

## Compared forms

- Arabic: *kaḏā* — kaḏā 'like this, thus' (Lane 948)
- Hebrew: *zeh* — zeh 'this', with Ug. d and Arb. ḏā (HALOT 264)
- Ugaritic: 𐎋 *k* — k 'like, as' (DULAT 415)

## Attestations

- [HT 9b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT9b/index.md>): KA-\*305 — thus, likewise (ditto heading)

## Commentary

HT 9b .2 KA-*305 ·, unnumbered, below the ruling, over a roster that repeats the names of HT 9a in whole units (KU-RO 24); *305 drawn whole at the edge of worn surface, undotted (GORILA I 19). k 'like, as' (DULAT 415) with the demonstrative ḏā 'this' (Heb. zeh, Ug. d, Arb. ḏā; HALOT 264), as Arb. kaḏā 'like this, thus' (Lane 948): a ditto heading over the repeated roster. The ḏ- demonstrative is a West Semitic innovation. One attestation. See DU.

## Same root

- [DU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU/index.md>) (du)
- [DA-QE-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-QE-RA/index.md>) (ḏā-Qīra)
- [DU-RU-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-RU-WI/index.md>) (ḏu-luwwī)
- [DU-MA-I-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-MA-I-NA/index.md>) (ḏū-maʿīna)
- [DU-NE-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-NE-MI/index.md>) (ḏū-naʿmi)
- [DU-ZU-WA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-ZU-WA/index.md>) (ḏū-ṯuwāʕ)
- [SE-WA-AU-DE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-WA-AU-DE/index.md>) (šawaʿ-dē)

## 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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