U-DI-RI-KI

conjunction u- "and" + dirik "way, path"—Hebrew derek דֶּרֶךְ, Akkadian darāku "to tread"; cross-ref DA-RE-KU (ZA18a, same √d-r-k skeleton, different vowel class)

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Reading
u-dirik
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*dirk- ‘road’
Kind
Toponym
Language
Semitic
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Compared forms

  • Hebrewדֶּרֶךְderekדֶּרֶךְ derek "way"
  • Akkadiandarākudarāku "to tread, follow"
  • Ugaritic𐎄𐎗𐎋drkdrk "dominion, way"

Attestations1 cited

  1. PH 7aU-DI-RI-KI[and the way/path

Commentary

PH 7a .2 U-DI-RI-KI[, broken after KI (GORILA I 295). Amorite and Ebla names on √d-r-k mean ‘successor’: darikum (Gelb 1980, nos. 1404, 1481–82), Dark-i-Ma (no. 1497), Ebla dar-gi (GlOS 1, 150); the sense ‘way’ rests on Hebrew derek. DA-RE-KU (ZA 18a)is an independent √d-r-k token at Zakros.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon