ZU-DU

breast (woman's)

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Reading
ṯudu
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ṯa/ud- ‘(woman’s) breast’
Kind
Body part
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎘𐎄ṯdṯd ‘breast, bosom, chest, teat, udder’ (DULAT 886)
  • Hebrewšadšad ‘mother’s breast’ (HALOT 1418)
  • Arabicṯadyṯady ‘the breast, mamma’ (Lane 333)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 51b]ZU-DU ⅝unread
  2. HT 99bZU-DU 1

Commentary

HT 51b ]ZU-DU ⅝, after ]KU-ME-TA 12[; HT 99b ZU-DU 1, after SI+SE FIC 6 and DA-SI-*118 2, before RU-MA-TA 1: a counted entry, in a fraction on HT 51b. ṯudu ‘breast’, a biconsonantal noun: Ug. ṯd ‘breast, bosom’, also ‘breast (of meat)’ (DULAT 886), Heb. šad ‘breast’ (HALOT 1416), Ar. ṯady-. Two attestations. See ZU-DI.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon