# SE-DE (ṣēd)

> provision of (construct), before \*21F-\*118 ḥiṭṭa 'wheat'

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

- Reading: ṣēd
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṣyd ~ \*zwd](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3505/index.md>) 'provisions for a journey; to provision'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SE (se) · DE (de)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *ṣayid* — ṣayid (II) 'food, provisions for a journey' (HALOT 1020–1021)
- Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎄 *ṣd* — ṣd (I) 'hunt, game' (DULAT 767)

## Attestations

- [ARKH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH2/index.md>): ZU-\*301-SE-DE-\*21F-\*118 6

## Commentary

ARKH 2 .3–4 ZU-*301-SE-DE-*21F-*118 6, ṯannān ṣēd ḥiṭṭa 'the chariot soldiers: provision of wheat, 6' (GORILA III 6–7). The root of the tablet's heading SI-DA-TE ṣēdat and of SE-*305 ṣēdā (KH 7a). Rival: part of a name ZU-*301-SE-DE. One witness.

## Same root

- [MA-SI-DU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-SI-DU/index.md>) (maṣīdu)
- [SE-\*305](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-*305/index.md>) (ṣēdā)
- [SI-DA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-DA-TE/index.md>) (ṣēdat)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; DULAT
- 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
- 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 III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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