# U (u)

> and (conjunction)

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

- Reading: u
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*wV--](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0425/index.md>) 'and'
- Kind: Particle
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎆 *w* — w 'and, but, then' (DULAT 926)
- Hebrew: וְ *wə-* — wə- (וְ) 'and'; û- (וּ) before b, m, p and shewa (Gesenius §104e)
- Akkadian: *u* — u 'and' (Gordon 1966 §163)
- Phoenician: 𐤅 *w* — w 'and' (Punic w-)

## Attestations

- [ARKH 4b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH4b/index.md>): U
- [HT 56a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT56a/index.md>): U

## Commentary

GORILA has U after a number on ARKH 4b (RE 10 U̥[, .2; GORILA III 15) and HT 56a (]11 ½ U[, .2; GORILA I 109), and U[ on HT 126a and U̥[ on HT 47a (GORILA I 91). u 'and', with the allomorph wa- in WA-DU-NI-MI 'and (to) the lord(s)' (HT 6b, HT 85b; see DU-NI-MI) and prefixed u- in U-DI-RI-KI. Gordon's only citation, Brice I,14 (*ya-ta-no-x u ya-[*), is in GORILA the U inside the formula verb JA-TA-I-*301-U-JA (AP Za 1). Weak point: every standalone U breaks after the sign, so each can open a lost word, and Linear A accounts do not otherwise join entries with a conjunction. See WBQY.

## References

- Reading: Gordon 1966 §163
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- 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 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
- 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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