# SA-DI (šadī)

> land labourer, field worker; rival the personal name Šadī

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

- Reading: šadī
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ŝady-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1804/index.md>) 'a (measured) plot of open country, cultivated land'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SA (sa) · DI (di)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎄𐎊 *šdy* — šdy (I) 'land labourer', nʿrm šdym (KTU 4.868:4); PN šdy (II), syll. ša-de₄-ya (DULAT 799)
- Hebrew: שָׂדֶה *śādeh* — śādeh שָׂדֶה 'field' (Gen 2:19)

## Attestations

- [HT 111b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT111b/index.md>): SA-DI 4

## Commentary

HT 111b .1 SA-DI 4[, whole and undotted, the numeral broken after (GORILA I 181), on a fragment broken above and below. SA writes š in the S-class merger. Ugaritic šdy (I) 'land labourer', as nʿrm šdym 'serving lads, labourers in the fields' (KTU 4.868:4; DULAT 799). A count of four fits a term for workers; the fragment gives no heading to choose between the occupation and the name. Rival: the name Šadī, Ugaritic šdy (II), ša-du-ya (DULAT 799), and Amorite ŠADW-IJA, ŠA-DI-IA (Gelb 1980, no. 5781).

## Same root

- [SI-DI-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-DI-JA/index.md>) (Šadiya)

## In the onomasticon

- [SA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SA-DI/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Gelb 1980
- 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
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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

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