# PA-DE (Padī)

> personal name 'redeemer' (p-d-y); recipient of wine

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

- Reading: Padī
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*pVdVy-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0246/index.md>) 'redeem'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PA (pa) · DE (de)

## Compared forms

- Eblaite: *ba-ti pādī* — ba-ti pādī 'ransomer', ba-ti-a (Pagan 1998, rows 1132–1133)
- Ugaritic: pdy (II), a name, syll. pa-di/dì-ya, etym. unc. (DULAT 653); pādiy 'redeemer, ransomer' (GlOS 2, 123)

## Attestations

- [HT 9a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT9a/index.md>): PA-DE 5 ³⁄₄ — personal name (cf. Padi of Ekron)
- [HT 9b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT9b/index.md>): PA-DE 3 — personal name (cf. Padi of Ekron)
- [HT 122a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122a/index.md>): PA-DE 1 — personal name (cf. Padi of Ekron)

## Commentary

HT 9a SA-RO · TE · VIN · PA-DE · 5¾, the first entry of the wine roster; HT 9b PẠ-DẸ 3, both signs dotted (GORILA I 18–19); HT 122a PA-DE 1. HT 122a recopies the HT 9 roster, so the three are one context. Ugaritic pdy (II) is a personal name, spelled syllabically pa-di/dì-ya, etym. unc. (DULAT 653); Padi is also the king of Ekron in Sennacherib's annals (RINAP 3, Sennacherib 4). DE writes the final ī. Rival: pa-de, a divine recipient at Knossos (KN Fp 1, Fp 48; DMic II 65–66), which Landau compares with PA-DE (Landau, Namen 94, apud DMic II 66).

## In the onomasticon

- [PA-DE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/PA-DE/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; DMic II; RINAP 3; Pagan 1998; GlOS 2
- DMic II: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. II (CSIC 1993). 
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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