# ZU-DU (ṯudu) > breast (woman's) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: ṯudu - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*ṯa/ud-]() '(woman's) breast' - Kind: Body part - Language: Semitic - Signs: ZU (zu) · DU (du) ## Compared forms - Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎄 *ṯd* — ṯd 'breast, bosom, chest, teat, udder' (DULAT 886) - Hebrew: *šad* — šad 'mother's breast' (HALOT 1418) - Arabic: *ṯady* — ṯady 'the breast, mamma' (Lane 333) ## Attestations - [HT 51b](): \]ZU-DU ⅝ — unread - [HT 99b](): ZU-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. ## Same root - [ZU-DI]() (ṯudī) - [I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA]() (ʿInatī ṯudī-šiqā) ## References - Reading: di Mino - HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln - 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 - Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZU-DU/ 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 50525edd.