# ZU-DI-RA (ṯudira)

> waitress, girl (Ug. ṯdr, a Hurro-Hittite loan from šiduri); rival the name Šituri

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

- Reading: ṯudira
- Type: Title; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Hurrian; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [ZU-DI-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZU-DI-RA/index.md>)

## Commentary

Roundels HTWc 3011 and 3012; a third reading *79-DI-RA is HTWc 3012 again. ṯudira 'waitress, girl': Ugaritic ṯdr (DULAT 886), a Hurro-Hittite loan from šiduri 'young woman' (Laroche 1980, 229; CAD Š/2 408). Rival: the Hurrian woman's name Šituri 'Girl', ši-du-ri at Mari and ši-tu-ri at Ašnakkum (Monti 2017, 296, 373). See the lexicon entry.

## Outside the corpus

ug_dulat_0842

## Attestations

- [HT Wc 3011](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3011/index.md>)
- [HT Wc 3012](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3012/index.md>)

## References

- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- 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
- CAD Š/2: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1992), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 2. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)

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