# \*21F-TU-NE (hatune)

> bridegroom, son-in-law

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: hatune
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ḫatān-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S16/index.md>) 'bridegroom, son-in-law; marriage alliance partner'
- Kind: Kinship
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*21F · TU (tu) · NE (ne)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *ḫ-t-n* — /ḫ-t-n/ 'to become a son-in-law, to marry', with the PN ḫa-at-ni, PRU 3 142 (DULAT 408); ḫtn 'relationship by marriage, wedding' (DULAT 409)
- Hebrew: *ḥātān* — ḥātān 'son-in-law, bridegroom' (HALOT 364)
- Akkadian: *ḫatānu* — ḫatānu 'relative by marriage' (CAD Ḫ 148)
- Amorite: *ḫatanum* — ḫatanum 'son-in-law' (Gelb AS 21, 20); names ʾAB-I+ḪATAN (Gelb AS 21 no. 81), ḪATAN+PI+ʾIL (no. 2200)
- Arabic: *ḫātana* — ḫātana 'he allied himself to him by marriage' (Lane 704)

## Attestations

- [HT 7b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT7b/index.md>): \*21F-TU-NE 1 — bridegroom, son-in-law, 1
- [HT 87](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT87/index.md>): \*21F-TU-NE MA-KA-RI-TE — bridegroom/in-law category
- [HT 117b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117b/index.md>): \*21F-TU-NE — bridegroom/in-law category (heading)

## Commentary

HT 87: *21F-TU-NE · MA-KA-RI-TE · heads six men at one unit each (PI-TA-KE-SI 1 … KU-RU-KU 1, A-RA-[?]-A-TU 1); HT 117b: *21F-TU-NE · over KU-RE-JU 1, DI-KI-SE 1; HT 7b: *21F-TU-NE 1 before DA-RU-*329 2. A rubric or personnel category in all three. √ḫ-t-n 'bridegroom, son-in-law' is pan-Semitic: Akkadian ḫatānu (CAD Ḫ 148), Ugaritic ḫtn (DULAT 408–409), Hebrew ḥātān (HALOT 364–365) and Arabic ḫatan (Lane 703–704). Syllabic controls are Ugaritic {LU₂}ḫa-ta-nu and Neo-Assyrian ḫa-tu₂-nu /ḫatunu/ (WVDOG 152, P514187.11.1), the latter the closest spelling to the Linear A, though much later. ḫa-tu-ne writes /ḫatun-/, final E a dead vowel. Three attestations.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD Ḫ: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1956), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 6, Ḫ. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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