Proto-Semitic root

*ḏī-

‘he who, that which’ (masculine demonstrative/relative)

di Mino’s gloss: he of, the one who, which, that; this

Record K0877 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor

In Linear A8 entries

DA-QE-RAḏā-Qīrathe (district) of Qīr, the walled townCandidateSemitic3DUduthat, of (relative pronoun)ConfirmedSemitic2DU-MA-I-NAḏū-maʿīnaHe of the Spring (personal name)SpeculativeSemitic1DU-NE-MIḏū-naʿmiHe of Grace (personal name)SpeculativeSemitic1DU-RU-WIḏu-luwwīthe Levite (ethnonymic designation)CandidateSemitic1DU-ZU-WAḏū-ṯuwāʕHe of the Lord (personal name)SpeculativeSemitic1KA-*305ka-ḏāthus, likewise (ditto heading)SpeculativeSemitic1SE-WA-AU-DEšawaʿ-dēwho cries out, the one who implores (relative clause: √š-w-ʿ + determinative-relative dē)SpeculativeSemitic1

Notes

SA grammatical morpheme; masculine counterpart of *ḏāt-. Paradigm: ḏy (m.sg) / ḏt (f.sg). HALOT 246 analyses Hebrew hallāzeh as *ha-l-ḏi and sets it beside Old South Arabian ʾl ḏī and Arabic allaḏī (relative). Tomback (T 72) analyses Pu. dl as the relative d with possessive l.

Reflexes22 languages

Northwest Semitic11

Arabic3

Epigraphic South Arabian1

Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian7

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.

Linear A Lexicon