# \*ʾad- 'father' 1, 'lord' 2

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

- Author's gloss: father; lord
- SED semet 3101
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%CA%BE/2567_father_1_lord_2.md

## In Linear A

- [A-DE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DE/index.md>) (ʾAddē): Father (hypocoristic personal name, ʾAdday); rival the kin title ʾad 'father'

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Eblaitic: /ʾad/: name a-du (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 7) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: ʔad 1
- Phoenician: ʔd 2
- Amorite: ʾadanum, ʾadantum, ʾadattum (Gelb AS 21, 13); ʾadān, ʾadattu (Buck 2019, 323); ʾad: a-di-e-ra-aḫ, a-du-ᵈa-mi, a-du-ra-mu (Ur III); ʾadān, ʾadōn: ʾadān= (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 7–8) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Amharic: ad 1

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