# \*ḏī- 'he who, that which' (masculine demonstrative/relative)

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

- Author's gloss: he of, the one who, which, that; this
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%E1%B8%8F/K0877_he_who_that_which_masculine_demonstrative_relati.md

## In Linear A

- [DA-QE-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-QE-RA/index.md>) (ḏā-Qīra): the (district) of Qīr, the walled town; heading opposite KA-PA 'village'; rival diḳaru 'pot'
- [DU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU/index.md>) (du): that, of (relative pronoun)
- [DU-MA-I-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-MA-I-NA/index.md>) (ḏū-maʿīna): He of the Spring (personal name; ḏū 'he of' + maʿīn 'spring, flowing water'); rival a product, '(the drink) of the spring'
- [DU-NE-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-NE-MI/index.md>) (ḏū-naʿmi): He of Grace (personal name; ḏū 'he of' + naʿm 'grace, pleasantness')
- [DU-RU-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-RU-WI/index.md>) (ḏu-luwwī): the Levite (ethnonymic designation)
- [DU-ZU-WA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-ZU-WA/index.md>) (ḏū-ṯuwāʕ): He of the Lord (personal name; ḏū 'he of' + ṯuwāʕ 'lord'); rival 'the noble one'
- [KA-\*305](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-*305/index.md>) (ka-ḏā): thus, likewise (ditto heading)
- [SE-WA-AU-DE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-WA-AU-DE/index.md>) (šawaʿ-dē): who cries out, the one who implores (relative clause: √š-w-ʿ + determinative-relative dē)

## 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.

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: d, ḏ (HALOT 1365)
- Biblical Aramaic: dī (HALOT 1365); dənā (HALOT 263); dāʾ (HALOT 263); dēk (HALOT BArm. s.v. דֵּךְ); dikkēn (HALOT BArm. s.v. דִּכֵּן) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: zū, zẹ (LGz. 629); hallāzeh, f. hallēzû (HALOT 246) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: d, dī, zī (LGz. 629); dənā; dn; zn; znh; zn-k (LGz. 641)
- Phoenician: z (T 89); z, ʾz, zʾ (T 89); zn (T 94) (gloss withheld)
- Amorite: zu (Huffmon APNM 186; HALOT 264); ḏū, ḏūna, ḏūnati (Buck 2019, 326) (gloss withheld)
- Emar: zu /ðū̆/ (Pentiuc 2001, 196) (gloss withheld)
- Moabite: zʾt (T 89) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: dl (T 72); Neo-Punic s, sy (Krahmalkov 339); esde; Neo-Punic st, sith (Krahmalkov 166) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: hāḏē (LGz. 630) (gloss withheld)
- Mandaic Aramaic: haza (LGz. 630) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ḏī / ḏū (Lane 986) (m.sg); ḏā (LGz. 629) (gloss withheld)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic ḏ (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 65) (gloss withheld)
- Modern Arabic: Yem. ḏi (Biella 89)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: ḏy (SD 37; ASA, Hadramitic, Minaic, Qatabanic, Sabaic); Sab ḏn (Biella 97); ḏn (Sabaweb lemma 1271); Sab z-; zn (Biella 157) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: ḏe, de (LGz. 629); ḏa, da (LGz. 629–630) (gloss withheld)
- Soqotri: di (LGz. 629); deʰ (LS 62, 120, 127, 131, 229; SLOnline 821) (gloss withheld)
- Geez: za; zə (LGz. 629); zəntu (LGz. 641) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ḏ-]
- Tigrinya: zə (LGz. 629); ʔazu (LGz. 630) (gloss withheld)
- Harari: zi (LGz. 629)
- Gurage: zə (LGz. 630) (gloss withheld)
- Harsusi: ḏen (LGz. 641)

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