# SA-MI-DA-E (samidē) > groats, semolina, processed grain A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: samidē - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*samīd-]() 'a type of groats' 1, 'fine flour' 2 - Kind: Commodity - Language: Semitic - Signs: SA (sa) · MI (mi) · DA (da) · E (e) ## Compared forms - : *Akkadian samīdu/samiddu* — Akkadian 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 ## Attestations - [ZA 5a](): SA-MI-DA-E — semolina / groats - [ZA 15a](): SA-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). ## References - Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2; Pentiuc 2001; Gelb 1980 - Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson - AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park - Pentiuc, Eugen J. (2001), West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar. Harvard Semitic Studies 49,Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-MI-DA-E/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.