# MA-SI-DU (maṣīdu)

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

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

- Reading: maṣīdu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṣyd ~ \*zwd](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3505/index.md>) 'provisions for a journey; to provision'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: MA (ma) · SI (si) · DU (du)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎕𐎄 *mṣd* — mṣd (I) '(feast/banquet of) game' (DULAT 578)
- Hebrew: ṣêdâ, ṣayid 'provisions' (HALOT 1021); √ṣ-w-d 'to hunt' (HALOT 1010)

## Attestations

- [HT 43](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT43/index.md>): MA-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.

## Same root

- [SE-\*305](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-*305/index.md>) (ṣēdā)
- [SE-DE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-DE/index.md>) (ṣēd)
- [SI-DA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-DA-TE/index.md>) (ṣēdat)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- 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
- Woudhuizen, Fred C. (2016), Documents in Minoan, Luwian, Semitic, and Pelasgian. Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society, Amsterdam; Publications of the Henri Frankfort Foundation 14
- 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
- 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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