# \*ṣdḳ 'to be just, true'

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

- Author's gloss: to be just, righteous, in the right; to speak the truth
- SED semet 3149
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%E1%B9%A3/2614_to_be_just_true.md

## In Linear A

- [SI-DU-QI-KU-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-DU-QI-KU-MI/index.md>) (Ṣiduqi-kummi): the cella of Ṣiduq, the Just One (heading an aromatic list)

## Notes

The noun *ṣidq- 'righteousness, justice' is 2762.

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Phoenician: ṣdq, yiphʿil (Neo-Punic hṣdyqʾ, KAI 154.1); ṣdq (adj.) (Krahmalkov 414) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: ṣdq, ṣaddīq, ṣədāqā (HALOT 1001, 1003, 1006) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: yaṣduqum, ṣaduq (HALOT 1003); ṣaduqu (Buck 2019, 333); ṣ-d-q: ia-áš-du-qa-an, ia-aš-du-kum, ia-aš/áš-du-uq-DINGIR; ṣadaq: za-da-ga (Ur III); ṣaduq: za-du-kum, ṣa-du-qa-nu-um, a-bi-ṣa-du-uq (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 214–215) (gloss withheld)
- Canaanite: ṣaduq (HALOT 1003)
- Syrian Aramaic: zādeq, zaddīqā, zedqā, zedqətā (HALOT 1001, 1003, 1004, 1006; Payne Smith 110)
- Judaic Aramaic: ṣidqā, ṣidqətā (HALOT 1004, 1006)
- Aramaic: ṣdq, ṣdyq, zdqt[ʾ], zdqʾ, ṣdqh, ṣdqtʾ (HALOT 1001, 1004, 1006; DNWSI 963)
- Mandaic Aramaic: zadiq(a), ṣadiq(a), zidqa (HALOT 1001, 1004; MD 157, 165)
- Biblical Aramaic: ṣidqā (HALOT 1006)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ṣadaqa (BK 1, 1322; HALOT 1003); ṣadīq (HALOT 1002) (gloss withheld)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic ṣdq (Al-Jallad 2026, 146) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab. ṣdq (Sabaweb lemma 1220) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Geez: ṣādəq (OLA80 §42.13); ṣadqa (LGz. 548) (gloss withheld)
- Tigre: ṣadqa, ṣaddaqa (HALOT 1003)
- Mehri: ṣādəq, ṣadiq (LGz. 548) (gloss withheld)
- Tigrinya: ṣädäqä (LGz. 548)
- Amharic: ṣäddäqä (LGz. 548)

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