# ZU-DI-RA (ṯudira)

> waitress, girl (Ug. ṯdr, a Hurro-Hittite loan from šiduri); rival the name Šituri

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

- Reading: ṯudira
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ṯdr](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/4421/index.md>) 'young woman, girl'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: ZU (zu) · DI (di) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎄𐎗 *ṯdr* — ṯdr 'waitress, girl', from Hurro-Hittite šiduri (DULAT 886)
- Akkadian: *šiduri* — šiduri 'young woman' (CAD Š/2 408)

## Attestations

- [HT Wc 3011](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3011/index.md>): ZU-DI-RA
- [HT Wc 3012](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3012/index.md>): ZU-DI-RA RE-RO — waitress, girl, the receiver

## Commentary

HT Wc 3011 ZU-DI-RA and HT Wc 3012 ZU-DI-RA RE-RO, two roundels of the Haghia Triada series. ṯudira 'waitress, girl': Ugaritic ṯdr, a Hurro-Hittite loan from šiduri 'young woman' (Laroche 1980, 229; CAD Š/2 408), reaching Crete through Hurrian or Ugaritic. Rival: the Hurrian woman's name Šituri 'Girl', ši-du-ri at Mari and ši-tu-ri at Ašnakkum (Monti 2017, 296, 373). Weak point: DULAT marks the gloss '(?)', and Ugarit has two witnesses, one in a Hurrian text (DULAT 886–887). Two attestations.

## In the onomasticon

- [ZU-DI-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/ZU-DI-RA/index.md>): Title, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Laroche 1980; CAD Š/2; Monti 2017
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- 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
- CAD Š/2: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1992), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 2. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)

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