# \*ṯa/ud- '(woman's) breast'

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

- Author's gloss: breast, bosom; udder
- SED semet 2229
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%E1%B9%AF/2036_woman_s_breast.md

## In Linear A

- [I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA/index.md>) (ʿInatī ṯudī-šiqā): my Anat, Breast-Who-Gives-Drink—theonym plus compound divine epithet
- [ZU-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZU-DI/index.md>) (ṯudī): breast (√ṯ-d-y, PS \*ṯad-); at IOZa6 first member of ZU-DI SI-KA (ṯudī-šiqā)
- [ZU-DU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZU-DU/index.md>) (ṯudu): breast (woman's)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: ṯd [Aist 332]. (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: šād (du. šādayim) (HALOT 1416, 1417), šōd (HALOT 1418) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: taddā [Ja 1647]; td (pl. tdyn, tddyn) [DJPA 575b apud CAL] (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: tǝdā [Brock 816; OLA80 §30.11] (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ṯady-, ṯidy- 'breast, nipple (of a woman)' [BK 1 220].

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: ṯódi [JM 415] (gloss withheld)
- Soqotri: tódi et al. [LS 439] (see also [SSL LS 1477; SSL 4 98]) (gloss withheld)
- Harsusi: ṯōdi [JH 132] (gloss withheld)
- Jibbali: ṯɔ́dɛʔ [JJ 283] (gloss withheld)

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