# RU-DI (rūdī)

> Roam! (f. imperative)

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

- Reading: rūdī
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*rVwVd-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0360/index.md>) 'roam'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RU (ru) · DI (di)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: רוּד *rûd* — רוּד rûd "to roam about freely" (HALOT 1194); רָדָה rādâ "to rule, have dominion" (HALOT 1190)
- Arabic: *rāda* — rāda (rwd) "to go back and forth, roam, search" (HALOT 1194)
- Akkadian: *redû* — redû "to accompany, lead, drive"
- Ugaritic: rdy (KTU 1.1; unglossed in CUC)

## Attestations

- [ZA Zb 34](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZAZb34/index.md>): \]PU₂-RE-JA KO-MU RU-DI\[ — roam! (f. imperative)
- [HT 141](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT141/index.md>): \]RU-DI-\[

## Commentary

ZA Zb 34 ]PU₂-RE-JA · KO-MU · RU-DI[ (GORILA IV 115) holds the word, more signs perhaps following it. HT 141 .2 ]RU-DỊ-[ (GORILA I 239) breaks after DI, the word possibly whole. rūdī 'roam!', the feminine imperative of √r-w-d (PS *rVwVd-), addressed to PU₂-RE-JA 'my Creatress', with KO-MU the accusative of place: Heb. rûd 'roam about freely' (Jer 2:31), 'Judah still goes about with God' (Hos 12:1); Arb. rāda 'go back and forth' (HALOT 1194). Rival: 'Rule!', √r-d-y, Heb. rādâ (Gen 1:26, Ps 72:8), whose imperative rədēh has no u (HALOT 1190). Two attestations.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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
- 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
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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