# \*ŝady- 'a (measured) plot of open country, cultivated land'

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: open field, countryside; steppe; plot of land
- SED semet 1938
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%C5%9B/1804_a_measured_plot_of_open_country_cultivated_land.md

## In Linear A

- [SA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-DI/index.md>) (šadī): land labourer, field worker; rival the personal name Šadī
- [SI-DI-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-DI-JA/index.md>) (Šadiya): personal name, Ugaritic Šadiya (šdy II), 'field'

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: šadû OAkk. on (CAD Š/1 49), šiddu OAkk. on, MB on (CAD Š/2 403–407; AHw 1230) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Mandaic Aramaic: sadia (DM 310) (gloss withheld)
- Ugaritic: šd (DULAT 795, 797) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: šd (T 314), Amrn. ša-te-e (HJ 1110) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: ŝādǟ (HALOT 1307, 1308) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: saddā 'furrow; the space of a furrow, i.e. 400 ells' (Brock. 460)
- Punic: šd 'field' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root śdy]

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab. s2dw (SD 131) (Sabaweb lemma 5069) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Tigre: sǝd (LH 197) (gloss withheld)
- Amharic: säd(d)a (Kane 1990, 574) (gloss withheld)

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Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.