MA-SI-DU

provisions (list heading); rival a personal name, cf. Linear B ma-si-dwo

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Reading
maṣīdu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ṣyd ~ *zwd ‘provisions for a journey’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎎𐎕𐎄mṣdmṣd (I) ‘(feast/banquet of) game’ (DULAT 578)
  • Hebrewṣêdâ, ṣayid ‘provisions’ (HALOT 1021); √ṣ-w-d ‘to hunt’ (HALOT 1010)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 43MA-SI-DU PA-*342-I I GRA+PA 5

Commentary

HT 43 .1 MA-SI-DU ·, all three signs whole, heading the tablet before PA-*342-I · I GRA+PA 5̣[ (GORILA I 83). maṣīdu ‘provisions’: Ug. mṣd ‘(feast of) game’ (DULAT 578), Heb. ṣêdâ ‘provisions’ (HALOT 1021); SI writes ṣi. Rival: a personal name, cf. Linear B ma-si-dwo, a man at Knossos (KN Fh 360.b; DMic I s.v.), with -Cu for Linear B -Co (Woudhuizen 2016, 218). One attestation. See SE-*305 and SI-DA-TE.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon