# U-DI-RI-KI (u-dirik)

> 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)

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

- Reading: u-dirik
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*dirk-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2639/index.md>) 'road; tread' 1, 'rule, power' 2, 'to pursue, overtake' 3
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · DI (di) · RI (ri) · KI (ki)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: דֶּרֶךְ *derek* — דֶּרֶךְ derek "way"
- Akkadian: *darāku* — darāku "to tread, follow"
- Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎗𐎋 *drk* — drk "dominion, way"

## Attestations

- [PH 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH7a/index.md>): U-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.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; GlOS 1
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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