# A-DE (ʾAddē)

> Father (hypocoristic personal name, ʾAdday); rival the kin title ʾad 'father'

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ʾAddē
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Zakros
- Lexicon: [A-DE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DE/index.md>)

## Commentary

ʾAddē 'Father', the Ugaritic name ʾady, syll. a-da-a-a (DULAT 23), with -ay contracted to -ē. ZA 10b also counts U-*49 ʾummi 'mother'.

## Attestations

- [ZA 10b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA10b/index.md>)

## References

- 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

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