# TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I (tesʾad šeqī)

> she serves; give (him) drink!

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

- Reading: tesʾad šeqī
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*sVʿVd-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0405/index.md>) 'support' + [\*šVḳ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1389/index.md>) 'drink' 1, 'give a drink, irrigate' 2
- Kind: Verbal
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TE (te) · SU (su) · DE (de) · SE (se) · KE (ke) · I (i)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *s-ʔ-d* — /s-ʔ-d/ 'to support, comfort', tsảd; /š-q-y/ G 'to offer drink', qḥn w tšqyn yn, KTU 1.19 IV 53 (DULAT 740, 827)
- Hebrew: *sʿd* — sʿd 'to sustain', of serving guests bread: wə-saʿădû libbəkem, Gen 18:5; səʿād libbəkā pat-leḥem, Judg 19:5

## Attestations

- [KN Zf 31](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZf31/index.md>): \]SI\[ \]SI-ZA-NE-\*310 DA-DU-MI-NE QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA A-WA-PI TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I A-DA-RA TI-DI-TE-QA-TI TA-SA-ZA TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE — 'she serves; give (him) drink!': tesʾad, 3fs of √s-ʔ-d 'to serve, comfort', the U of SU standing for the ʾ, + šeqī, 2fs imperative of √š-q-y 'to offer drink' (DULAT 740, 827)

## Commentary

KN Zf 31, a silver pin from a Mavro Spelio tomb, last word of the first line, before A-DA-RA; legible, dividers both sides (GORILA IV 155). TE-SU-DE tesʾad 'she serves', 3fs G prefix of √s-ʾ-d. No sign of its own writes the ʾ: the U of SU stands in its place, where Ugaritic writes ʾ only with a vowel-bearing aleph, ả in tsảd (Huehnergard 2012, 21). SE-KE-I šeqī 'give drink!', 2fs G imperative of √š-q-y; KE writes q as in RO-KE, final I the 2fs -ī as in TI-DI tidī. Ugaritic pairs the verbs when Kothar-wa-Ḫasis brings the bow: Danel orders šlḥm ššqy ỉlm, sảd kbd hmt 'feed and give drink to the god, serve and honor him' (KTU 1.17 V 19–20), and Danatiya serves (V 29–30). Ugaritic gives drink with Š ššqy. One attestation. See TA-SA-ZA, TA-NA-SU-TE-KE and SI-KA (IO Za 6).

## Same root

- [SI-KA (IOZa6)](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-KA~20(IOZa6)/index.md>) (šiqā)
- [A-DA-KI-SI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DA-KI-SI-KA/index.md>) (Ḫadki-šiqā)
- [I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA/index.md>) (ʿInatī ṯudī-šiqā)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Huehnergard 2012; KTU 1.17
- 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
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- 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 IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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