# OLE+DI (dišpu)

> honeyed oil (DI for dišpu 'honey')

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

- Reading: dišpu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*dVbš-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2737/index.md>) 'honey'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: OLE · DI (di)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *dišpu* — dišpu 'honey' (CAD D 161)
- Hebrew: *dəbaš* — dəbaš 'honey' (HALOT 212)
- Arabic: *dibs* — dibs 'the expressed juice of fresh ripe dates, date honey' (Lane 848)

## Attestations

- [HT 12](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT12/index.md>): QA-TI-DA-TE OLE+DI 5 — honey-oil (oil infused with or qualified by honey)
- [HT 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT14/index.md>): OLE+DI 3 — olive oil subtype DI
- [HT 28a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT28a/index.md>): SA-RA₂ OLE+DI 1
- [HT 28b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT28b/index.md>): OLE+DI 5 — honey-infused olive oil
- [HT 50b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT50b/index.md>): OLE+DI 1
- [HT 90](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT90/index.md>): OLE+DI 3 — honey-infused olive oil
- [HT 116a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT116a/index.md>): OLE+DI 5
- [HT 129](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT129/index.md>): OLE+DI 1 — honey-oil (compound logogram)

## Commentary

OLE with the adjunct DI: 12 tokens on 8 Haghia Triada tablets, beside OLE+MI on HT 14, HT 28a, HT 90 and HT 116a, a distinct oil class. DI writes the di- of dišpu 'honey' (CAD D 161), Heb. dəbaš 'honey' (HALOT 213): honeyed oil. Ugaritic uses nbt for honey (DULAT 610). Weak point: one adjunct sign stands for the whole word. See OLE+MI.

## Same root

- [DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI/index.md>) (dibšu)
- [OLE+QE+DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE~2BQE~2BDI/index.md>)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- 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

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