A-SU-JA

Azzuya (woman's name; Hurrian hypocoristic on az(z)-)

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Reading
Azzuya
Confidence
Speculative
Root
—
Kind
Personal name
Language
Hurrian
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • NuziAZ(Z)UIA, A-zu-ia, var. Az-zu-ia, a woman (Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943, 41); az(z), Hurrian, in women’s names (ibid., 208)
  • HurrianAzzuāya, az-zu-a-ia, f. (Mari, VHN 81); base Azzu ‘woman’, f. (Mari, Karana; Monti 2017, 234, 386)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 11aA-SU-JA 1Azzuya (woman's name, Hurrian)

Commentary

HT 11a .3–4 A-SU-JA 1, A at the end of .3 and SU-JA on .4, whole and undotted, the first entry after KU-RO 10 (GORILA I 23). Spelled as Nuzi A-zu-ia: SU writes zu, JA the hypocoristic -ya. Rival: Ugaritic PN ùsy (DULAT 111).

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon