A-JU

Ḥayyu 'Living' (personal name)

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Reading: Ḥayyu
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *ḥayy- ‘to live, be alive’
Kind: Personal name
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Ugariticḥy (III) PN, syll. fḫé-ia-PI, bn ḥy (KTU 4.366:4); ḥy (I) ‘alive’ (DULAT 376)
AmoriteḤAJJ-UM, ḪA-IU-UM (Gelb 1980, no. 2044)

Attestations1 cited

HT Zd 155 3DA-JU NA-MA-MA-TI-TI-A319Ḥayyu 'Living' (personal name), in WI-JA-SU's slot on HT Zd 157

Commentary

HT Zd 155, a graffito on stucco: A-JU · NA-MA-MA-TI-TI-A319, A-JU whole and undotted before the divider (GORILA IV 131), in the name slot that WI-JA-SU holds before -MA-TI-TI-A319 on HT Zd 157. A writes ḥa, JU yu: Ḥayyu, the masculine of A-JA ḥayyā, as the Ugaritic name ḥy (DULAT 376) and Amorite ḤAJJ-UM (Gelb 1980, no. 2044). One attestation. Cf. A-JA.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT Zd 155Haghia Triadaa-ju