PU-DE

share(s), portion

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Reading
buddē
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*bud- ‘take away’ 1, ‘separate’ 2, ‘disperse’ 3…
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Arabicbudd, budda ‘a lot, share, portion’ (Lane 161)
  • Hebrewbadbad ‘part, portion’; bad bəbad ‘in equal portions’ (Ex 30:34; HALOT 108)

Attestations1 cited

  1. KH 88PU-DE 8share(s), portion

Commentary

KH 88, a list headed QA-NU-MA · *21F-*118 ḥiṭṭa ‘wheat’, with NI figs 10 before PU-DE 8. buddē ‘share(s)’, PS *bud- ‘distribute, share out’: Arab. budd, budda ‘a lot, share, portion’ (Lane 161), the u after the labial as PU writes it; Heb. bad ‘part, portion’, bad bəbad ‘in equal portions’ (Ex 30:34; HALOT 108). DE writes plain d. A share follows the wheat and figs. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon