# MA-KI-DE-TE (Majdat) > personal name, 'glory' (feminine) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Majdat - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*magd-]() 'excellence' - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: MA (ma) · KI (ki) · DE (de) · TE (te) ## Compared forms - Safaitic: MJDT, a personal name, 6 Safaitic (Harding 1971, 528) - Arabic: *majd* — majd 'glory, honour, nobility' (Lane 2689) ## Attestations - [ZA 10b](): MA-KI-DE-TE 5 ## Commentary ZA 10b .3 MA-KI-DE-TE 5, intact, between MA-ZA 5 and SA-MA 5 in a name list (GORILA III 171). Safaitic MJDT beside MJD (Harding 1971, 528); Hebrew meged 'excellence' and Magdîʾēl (Gen 36:43). With ME-KI-DI (ZA 14) the feminine and masculine of one name at one site, as Harding's MJDT and MJD. Rival: Arabian MQʿDT 'posterior, seat' (Harding 1971, 560), with ʿ unwritten. One document. ## Same root - [ME-KI-DI]() (Majd) ## In the onomasticon - [MA-KI-DE-TE](): Personal name, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino - Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press - Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London - GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-KI-DE-TE/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.