# PU-DE (buddē)

> share(s), portion

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

- Reading: buddē
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*bud-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/519/index.md>) 'take away' 1, 'separate' 2, 'disperse' 3, 'distribute, share out' 4
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PU (pu) · DE (de)

## Compared forms

- Arabic: budd, budda 'a lot, share, portion' (Lane 161)
- Hebrew: *bad* — bad 'part, portion'; bad bəbad 'in equal portions' (Ex 30:34; HALOT 108)

## Attestations

- [KH 88](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH88/index.md>): PU-DE 8 — share(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.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London

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