# KA-DI (kadd)

> jar, jug (liquid container)

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

- Reading: kadd
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*kad-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/319/index.md>) 'mug'
- Kind: Vessel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · DI (di)
- Rank: #82 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎄 *kd* — kd "jar; measure of capacity for liquids" (DULAT 424); syll. DUG ka-du-ma 'jars' (GlOS 1, 301)
- Hebrew: כַּד *kad* — kad כַּד "jar, pitcher" (Gen 24:14)
- Akkadian: *kandu* — kandu "a container of earthenware or silver, mainly for wine", NB, West Semitic word (CAD K 148)
- Greek: κάδος — κάδος 'jug, pitcher', Lat. cadus, borrowed from Semitic kd, chiefly for wine (Rendsburg 2026, 213)

## Attestations

- [ZA 15b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA15b/index.md>): KA-DI VIN 3
- [ZA 4a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA4a/index.md>): KA-DI 3 — jars, 3 units—closes the list

## Commentary

ZA 15b: KA-DI · VIN 3, then KU-RO VIN 78. ZA 4a: KA-DI 3, the last entry of the list, after E-*82 50. Ug. kd 'jar; liquid measure' (DULAT 424), Heb. kad (Gen 24:14), Akk. kandu, a wine container, a West Semitic word (CAD K 148). KA-DI writes kadd-, the geminate unmarked. Rival on ZA 4a: a personal name among the list's entries. Two attestations, both Zakros.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 1; Rendsburg 2026
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park
- Rendsburg, Gary A. (2026), Across the Mediterranean: Ugaritic Words which Reached Greek and Latin. In Colasuonno, Maria Maddalena; Criscuolo, Alfredo; D'Anna, Luca; Esposito, Raffaele; Lusini, Gianfrancesco; Nicosia, Mara (eds.), Forty Years of Semitic Philology: Studies in Honour of Riccardo Contini, Offered by Friends and Colleagues on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, Volume II,Series Minor CX.2; Serie Orientale Roma n.s. 57.2,UniorPress, Napoli,201–219

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