# A-JA-KU (ʾAyaku)

> personal name ('Where are you?')

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

- Reading: ʾAyaku
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʾayy-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0567/index.md>) 'which?' 1, 'where?' 2, 'how?' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · JA (ja) · KU (ku)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Amorite: ʾAjak-u, written A-JA-KU (Gelb 1980, no. 320); ʾAjak-um, A-IA-KU-UM (no. 300); the ʾAja- 'where?' names, nos. 285–319
- Hebrew: אַיֶּכָּה *ʾayyekkâ* — ʾayyekkâ (אַיֶּכָּה) 'where are you?' (Gen 3:9; HALOT 39)

## Attestations

- [KN Zf 13](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZf13/index.md>): A-RE-NE-SI-DI-\*301-PI-KE-PA-JA-TA-RI-SE-TE-RI-MU-A-JA-KU

## Commentary

KN Zf 13, the last four signs of an undivided 19-sign spiral, ending at the centre of the bezel; the start of the word is not marked and KU is underdotted (GORILA IV 152–153). Amorite ʾAjak-u (Gelb 1980, no. 320). Rival: Akk. ajakku, a temple structure (CAD A/1 224–225). See A-RE-NE-SI-DI-*301-PI-KE-PA-JA-TA-RI-SE-TE-RI-MU-A-JA-KU.

## Same root

- [A-RE-NE-SI-DI-\*301-PI-KE-PA-JA-TA-RI-SE-TE-RI-MU-A-JA-KU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RE-NE-SI-DI-*301-PI-KE-PA-JA-TA-RI-SE-TE-RI-MU-A-JA-KU/index.md>) (\[…\] ʾAyaku)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-JA-KU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-JA-KU/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## 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
- CAD A/1: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1964), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. A/1. Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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