ZU-DI

breast (√ṯ-d-y, PS *ṯad-); at IOZa6 first member of ZU-DI SI-KA (ṯudī-šiqā)

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Reading
ṯudī
Confidence
Probable
Root
*ṯa/ud- ‘(woman’s) breast’
Kind
Divine
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎘𐎄ṯdṯd "breast, udder; breast-piece" (Aistleitner 332)
  • Hebrewšādšād (du. šādayim) "breast" (KB 1316); šōd "mother-breast" (KB 1317)
  • Aramaictaddātaddā "breast" (Jastrow 1647)
  • Arabicṯady-, ṯidy- "breast, teat (of woman)" (BK 2 220)
  • MSAMehri ṯódi, Harsusi ṯōdi, Soqotri tódi "breast, bosom"

Attestations1 cited

  1. IO Za 63DTA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NU I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA JA-SA-SA-RA-MEBreast (first member of a divine epithet)

Commentary

IO Za 6 I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA: ZU-DI is the first member of the compound epithet ZU-DI SI-KA ṯudī-šiqā ‘Breast-Who-Gives-Drink’, after I-NA-TA-I ʿInatī ‘my Anat’; its -ī is the construct vowel binding it to SI-KA. ṯudī ‘breast’: Ug. ṯd (DULAT 886), Arab. ṯady-, Mehri ṯódi, Harsusi ṯōdi (SED I, no. 280). Ugarit has the nursing at Athirat’s breast, ynqm b ảp zd ảṯrt ‘who suck at the nipples of Athirat’ (KTU 1.23:24), zd an allomorph of ṯd (DULAT 983). ZU-DI-RA occurs on HT Wc 3011–3012. See ZU-DU.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).

Linear A Lexicon