# A-JU (Ḥayyu)

> Ḥayyu 'Living' (personal name)

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

- Reading: Ḥayyu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḥayy-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2760/index.md>) 'to live, be alive; life'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · JU (ju)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: ḥy (III) PN, syll. fḫé-ia-PI, bn ḥy (KTU 4.366:4); ḥy (I) 'alive' (DULAT 376)
- Amorite: ḤAJJ-UM, ḪA-IU-UM (Gelb 1980, no. 2044)

## Attestations

- [HT Zd 155](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTZd155/index.md>): A-JU NA-MA-MA-TI-TI-A319 — Ḥayyu '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.

## Same root

- [A-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-JA/index.md>) (ḥayyā)
- [JA-JA-\[…\]](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-JA-~5B~E2~80~A6~5D/index.md>) (ḥayyā)
- [JA-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-WI/index.md>) (Yawī)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Gelb 1980
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- 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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