# ZA-TI (zāt) > this (f.sg. demonstrative) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: zāt - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*ḏāt-]() 'that of, she who' (feminine demonstrative/relative) - Kind: Particle - Language: Semitic - Signs: ZA (za) · TI (ti) ## Compared forms - Hebrew: *zō(ʾ)t* — zō(ʾ)t 'this' (f.sg.), from an earlier interdental demonstrative base; closest lexical parallel (Huehnergard 2023, 46) - Phoenician: *ʾGN* — ʾGN n.f. 'bowl'; FK D 35 hʾgn hz 'this bowl,' with a postposed demonstrative (Krahmalkov 2000, 31) - Ugaritic/Arabic: dāti/ḏāti is an inflected genitive relative/possessive form with a phonemic final /i/; it is retained only as the rejected rival analysis ## Attestations - [KN Zc 7](): A-KA-NU-ZA-TI DU-RA-RE A-ZU-RA — this (f.sg. demonstrative) ## Commentary Fills the gap Gordon (1966 §156) marked between A-KA-NU and DU-RA-RE. ZA-TI writes zāt (older *zāʾt), TI giving final t with a support vowel; Hebrew zō(ʾ)t, from West Semitic *ðv̄- (Huehnergard 2023, 46), is the closest parallel. Phoenician ʾGN is feminine, and FK D 35 hʾgn hz 'this bowl' sets the demonstrative after its noun (Krahmalkov 2000, 31): A-KA-NU ZA-TI 'this bowl'. Rivals: ḏāti 'of', whose Ugaritic dāti and Arabic ḏāti keep a genitive i and need an agreement frame absent here; a name, 'bowl of Zati': Ebla za-ti (Pagan 1998, row 5052; ARET 15 30). Weak points: a hapax; GORILA reads ZA where SigLA reads ZE; A-ZU-RA on the same cup leaves its final t unwritten. See TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE. ## Same root - [DA-TU]() (ḏātu) - [TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE]() (ṯāt ʾikezzer) ## References - Reading: Gordon 1966 §156; Krahmalkov 2000, 31; Huehnergard 2023, 46; Pagan 1998; di Mino - Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68 - Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven) - Huehnergard, John (2023), Proto-Semitic and Egyptian. In Almansa-Villatoro, Victoria; Štubňová Nigrelli, Silvia (eds.), Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic: Rethinking the Origins,Languages of the Ancient Near East,Pennsylvania State University Press/Eisenbrauns,139–160 - Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012) - EbDA: Ebla Digital Archives (CNR), Ebla Digital Archives (EbDA): ARET, ARES and MEE text editions. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZA-TI/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.