# PA-DE (Padī) > personal name 'redeemer' (p-d-y); recipient of wine A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Padī - 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: Haghia Triada - Lexicon: [PA-DE]() ## Commentary Gordon direct match. Part of consistent HT work gang alongside DI-NA-U (Dīnāyu), Kubanu, Yamidare (Egyptian theophoric). Receives 5.75 on HT9a and 3 on HT9b, and appears in a personnel headcount (1 on HT122a). NWS name with Philistine parallels. Ugaritic PN pdy (II), syll. pa-di, pa-di-ya (DULAT 653); Padi, king of Ekron (ORACC). Rival: Knossian divine recipient pa-de (DMic II). ## Attestations - [HT 9a]() - [HT 9b]() - [HT 122a]() ## References - ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated - DMic II: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. II (CSIC 1993). - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/names/PA-DE/ 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.