SA-MI-DA-E

groats, semolina, processed grain

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Reading
samidē
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*samīd- ‘a type of groats’ 1, ‘fine flour’ 2
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Akkadian samīdu/samidduAkkadian samīdu/samiddu ‘groats, coarse meal, semolina’ (temple ration lists); Emar si-im-mi-da-ti simmidatu ‘a kind of flour’ (GlOS 2, 198; Pentiuc 2001, 156); related to SA-MA-TI (HT39) from same root

Attestations2 cited

  1. ZA 5a3DSA-MI-DA-Esemolina / groats
  2. ZA 15aSA-MI-DA-E 4

Commentary

ZA 5a and ZA 15a, both Zakros. samidē ‘groats, semolina’, a borrowed Akkadian commodity noun with a Minoan ending -E; it takes quantity 4 on ZA 15a, and its slot on ZA 5a, after KI-NI-MA 7 and O-TA-NI-ZA-SE 6, admits a commodity or a name. It shares the smt skeleton with JA-SU-MA-TU, with SA-MA-TI (HT 39), whose slot shows no commodity, and with Ug. ṣmd /ṣimdu/ ‘pair, yoke, team’, BH ṣemed (Huehnergard 2012, 130–135). Rival: a name of the kinship-theophoric X-dāʿ type, Šumī- or Šammī-dāʿē ‘my Name knows’, beside A-MI-DA-U and A-MI-DA-O ʿAmmī-dāʿ; Amorite has SA-MI-DA-ḪU-UM Śami-daʿum (Gelb 1980, no. 5450), and the Bible ʾĂbîdāʿ and ʾEldāʿā (Gen 25:4). Against the rival, its -U/-E endings need a final-vowel variation, and Howard (JSS 68.1) documents u > a only in √ypʿ names (Niqmī-yapuʿ > Niqmēpaʿ).

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

ZA 5a–bZakros…sa-mi-da-e
Linear A Lexicon