# DA-NE-KU-TI (Ḏā-naquddi)

> He of the speckled (flock) (personal name); rival 'He of the head shepherd'

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

- Reading: Ḏā-naquddi
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*naḳid- 1, \*naḳad- 2](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2577/index.md>) 'shepherd, sheep-breeder' 1, 'sheep, lamb' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · NE (ne) · KU (ku) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: ksp d nqdm 'silver of the head shepherds' (KTU 4.369:8); nqd 'head shepherd' (DULAT 630); syll. mu-qa-dī 'grazing rights' (PRU 6 116; UVST NQD¹)
- Hebrew: נֹקֵד *nōqēd* — nōqēd נֹקֵד 'sheep-breeder', of Mesha (2 Kgs 3:4); nāqōd נָקֹד 'speckled' (Gen 30:32)

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>): DA-NE-KU-TI 1 — He of the speckled (flock) (personal name); rival 'He of the head shepherd'

## Commentary

HT 117a .8–9 DA-NE-KU-TI 1, after DA-MI-NU 1 and before KI-DA-RO 1, in the second list headed SA-TA (GORILA I 197). ḏā 'the one of', as in DA-MI-NU, + naquddi, genitive of naqudd- 'speckled', Jacob's flock (Gen 30:32), TI writing di: 'He of the speckled (flock)'. KU-TI answers to -qudd-, as Hebrew nəquddîm (Gen 30:39; HALOT 719); Safaitic has the name Nqd (Harding 1971, 597). DA-MI-NU beside it answers to LB da-mi-ni-jo, a shepherd at Knossos. Rivals: nāqidi 'herdsman' (Ebla na-gi-du-um, GlOS 2, 92), as Ugaritic nqdm 'chief shepherds' with the same d in ksp d … nqdm (KTU 4.369:2–8; DULAT 253), whose a-i vowels miss NE-KU; DA-NE + KU-TI, neither part attested alone.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; Harding 1971; GlOS 2; DULAT
- 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
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- 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
- 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 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
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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