# SA-RA-DI (šalardi)

> group of daughters (Hurrian collective)

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

- Reading: šalardi
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: SA (sa) · RA (ra) · DI (di)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: *šāl=ardi* — šāl=ardi 'group of daughters' (Wilhelm, "Hurrian," 103); šalardi 'qualité de fille', ša-la-ar-di, Mari 5, 11; RS h. 5, 12 (Laroche 1980, 213); šal(a)=arde 'Tochterschaft' (Wegner 2000, 51; Richter 2012, 344)

## Attestations

- [HT 27a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT27a/index.md>): SA-RA-DI 5 — group of daughters, 5

## Commentary

HT 27a .5 ]SA-RA-DI 5, broken directly before SA (GORILA I 49), a counted row in the personnel tally under TI-NI-TA · *307 (KU-RO 335). Hurrian šāl(a)=ardi, šāla 'daughter' with the collective -ardi, the thematic vowel lost before it: šāl=ardi 'group of daughters' (Wilhelm, "Hurrian," 103); ša-la-ar-di at Mari and Ugarit (Laroche 1980, 213); šal(a)=arde 'Tochterschaft' (Wegner 2000, 51). ša-la-ar-di gives SA-RA-DI sign for sign: coda r unwritten, RA for /la/. Laroche and Wegner gloss an abstract, 'qualité de fille,' 'Tochterschaft'; Wilhelm's collective fits a counted row. The break allows a longer compound, as Mari sindišalardi 'Siebentochterschaft' (Richter 2012, 388). One witness.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Wilhelm, Hurrian; Laroche 1980; Wegner 2000; Richter 2012
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- Wegner, Ilse (2000), Einführung in die hurritische Sprache. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden
- Richter, Thomas (2012), Bibliographisches Glossar des Hurritischen. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden
- 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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