# TI-DA-TA (ṯidṯīta)

> sixth, the sixth section

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

- Reading: ṯidṯīta
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*šidṯ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S98/index.md>) 'six'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TI (ti) · DA (da) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎄𐎚 *tdt* — tdt "sixth" (Huehnergard 2012)
- Hebrew: šiššî, fem. šiššît 'sixth; a sixth (part)' (HALOT 1666)
- Akkadian: šeššu

## Attestations

- [HT 123+124b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT123~2B124b/index.md>): TI-DA-TA — sixth, the sixth section

## Commentary

HT 123+124b, after *312 1¾: TI-DA-TA ·, then PI-SA 4, the group followed by a divider with no numeral. Ugaritic ṯdṯ 'sixth' (DULAT 887), which keeps the d that the cardinal ṯṯ assimilates (Huehnergard 2012, 51), with T writing the interdental. TI writes the i of the NWS ordinal, Heb. šiššî, fem. šiššît, which is also the fraction 'a sixth': šiššît hāʾêpâ 'a sixth of an ephah' (Ezek 45:13; HALOT 1666). Rival: the cardinal ṯidṯat- 'six', Ug. f. ṯṯt (DULAT 922). Weak point: one attestation. Cf. TI-TI-MA.

## Same root

- [TI-TI-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-TI-MA/index.md>) (ṯiṯṯīma)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; HALOT; Huehnergard 2012
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- 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

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