# DA-KU-SE-NE (Takušenni)

> Hurrian personal name, 'the brother is beautiful'; cf. Boğazköy Tagu(b)-šini, Ugaritic Taki-šenni

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

- Reading: Takušenni
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: DA (da) · KU (ku) · SE (se) · NE (ne)
- Rank: #33 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: tgḏn PN, Hurrian, syllabic ta-gi₅-ša-na, RS 16.140:8, and ták-ša-na, RS 16.257 II 3 (DULAT 848); Tak-Šana, {1}ta-ki-ša-na (Kinlaw 1967, 115)
- Hurrian: Tagup-šeni, Ḫatti (de Martino 2011, 86); Ta-ku, Ta-gu, Nuzi (Gelb, Purves and MacRae 1943, 262); šenna- names, Še-en-na-a-a, Še-en-ni-ia (ibid., 255)

## Attestations

- [HT 103](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT103/index.md>): PA₃ DA-KU-SE-NE 6 ¹⁄₂ — Hurrian personal name; cf. Boğazköy Tagu(b)-šini, Ugaritic Taki-šenni

## Commentary

HT 103 lists DA-KU-SE-NE twice, on .2–3 as PA₃-DA-KU-SE-NE[ ]6½, broken after NE, with a possible divider after PA₃ (GORILA I 171), and again with 1, beside DA-KU-NA 1; HT 104 has DA-KU-SE-NE-TI 45½ with I-DU-TI 20½ and PA-DA-SU-TI 29, KU-RO 95: a name. DA-KU writes taku under stop neutralization, with the u of tagu-. Boğazköy Tagu(b)-šini (KBo XXII 114, 7), under the themes tagi- and tagu- (Laroche 1980, 250); Ugaritic tgḏn, syllabic ta-gi₅-ŠA-na, Hurrian Taki-šenni (NPN 262, printed Tgz̄n; Tropper 2000, 119, §32.144.35); Nuzi Aku-šenni, Takku and Takuja (NPN s.vv.). Hurrian šēna 'brother' with the individualizing -ni, šen=ni, gives the element -šenni (Giorgieri 2000, 199, 202; Wilhelm, Hurrian, 103; Laroche 1980, 225–26, s.v. šeni). GORILA I 171 allows the final TI of HT 104 to be an ideogram or classifier; Finkelberg 2002/03, 96–97 takes it as a dative of the recipient. tagi, tagu- is Hurrian 'beautiful' (Laroche 1980, 250–51): 'the brother is beautiful'.

## In the onomasticon

- [DA-KU-SE-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/DA-KU-SE-NE/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian
- [DA-KU-SE-NE-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/DA-KU-SE-NE-TI/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: Gordon 1966; NPN; Tropper 2000; Laroche 1980; Giorgieri 2000; Wilhelm, Hurrian; Finkelberg 2002/03
- Finkelberg, Margalit (2002), The Eteocretan Inscription from Psychro and the Goddess of Thalamai. Minos,37–38 (2002–2003),95–99
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- Tropper, Josef (2000), Ugaritische Grammatik. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 273,Ugarit-Verlag
- 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
- Giorgieri, Mauro (2000), Schizzo grammaticale della lingua hurrica. La Parola del Passato,55, fasc. I–VI (La civiltà dei Hurriti),171–277
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- de Martino, Stefano (2011), Hurrian Personal Names in the Kingdom of Ḫatti. LoGisma, Firenze (Eothen 18)

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