DA-TU

She of (…), a woman named by her house (personal name; feminine of ḏū 'he of'); rival daṯʾu 'spring pasture'

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Reading
ḏātu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ḏāt- ‘that of, she who’ (feminine…)
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • SabaicPNf ḏt + clan name, the woman married into the clan (Sabaweb lemma 1281, after Stein 2012, 77)
  • Ugariticdt, f. of the functor d ‘the one(s) of’: pldm dt šʕrt ‘cloaks of wool’, KTU 4.270:8 (DULAT 252)
  • Arabicḏātu, fem. of ḏū ‘a possessor, an owner, a lord’ (Lane 984)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 123+124a3DDA-TU OLIV 15She of (…), a woman named by her house (personal name); rival daṯʾu 'spring pasture'

Commentary

HT 123+124a .6 DA-TU OLIV 15, *308 4¼, KI-RO ¾, the fourth holder after KI-TA-I gittī, PU-*131A and SA-RU šarru (GORILA I 211); TU (AB69) in the SigLA crop, which labels it KI. DA ḏā as in DA-NA-SI Ḏā-Naśiʾ, TU the nominative -tu: ḏātu stands alone with its quantities, as DU ḏū does (ZA 10b, ZA 31), the woman of a house as the Sabaic PNf ḏt + clan name. Side b of the tablet lists DU-MA-I-NA ḏū-maʿīna. Rival: daṯʾu ‘spring pasture’, a field name; dīšu, esikti dīšim nisik ‘we have assigned the spring grass (for pasture)’ (ARM 6 23:8; CAD D 163–164). Weak points: ḏāt is elsewhere bound to a following noun; ZA-TI zāt writes the demonstrative with Z at Knossos. One attestation. Cf. DU-MA-I-NA.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 123+124aHaghia Triadada-tu…
Linear A Lexicon