# ZU-DI (ṯudī)

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

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

- Reading: ṯudī
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*ṯa/ud-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2036/index.md>) '(woman's) breast'
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: ZU (zu) · DI (di)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎄 *ṯd* — ṯd "breast, udder; breast-piece" (Aistleitner 332)
- Hebrew: *šād* — šād (du. šādayim) "breast" (KB 1316); šōd "mother-breast" (KB 1317)
- Aramaic: *taddā* — taddā "breast" (Jastrow 1647)
- Arabic: ṯady-, ṯidy- "breast, teat (of woman)" (BK 2 220)
- MSA: Mehri ṯódi, Harsusi ṯōdi, Soqotri tódi "breast, bosom"

## Attestations

- [IO Za 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/IOZa6/index.md>): TA-NA-I-\*301-U-TI-NU I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA JA-SA-SA-RA-ME — Breast (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.

## Same root

- [ZU-DU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZU-DU/index.md>) (ṯudu)
- [I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA/index.md>) (ʿInatī ṯudī-šiqā)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; SED I
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- SED I: Militarev, Alexander; Kogan, Leonid (2000), Semitic Etymological Dictionary, Vol. I: Anatomy of Man and Animals. Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 278/1)
- 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
- Jastrow: Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Luzac & Co., London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York; 2 vols
- BK 2: Biberstein Kazimirski, A. de (1860), Dictionnaire arabe-français, tome second. Maisonneuve et Cie, Paris

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