# DA-TU (ḏātu)

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

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

- Reading: ḏātu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḏāt-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0876/index.md>) 'that of, she who' (feminine demonstrative/relative)
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · TU (tu)

## Compared forms

- Sabaic: PNf ḏt + clan name, the woman married into the clan (Sabaweb lemma 1281, after Stein 2012, 77)
- Ugaritic: dt, f. of the functor d 'the one(s) of': pldm dt šʕrt 'cloaks of wool', KTU 4.270:8 (DULAT 252)
- Arabic: ḏātu, fem. of ḏū 'a possessor, an owner, a lord' (Lane 984)

## Attestations

- [HT 123+124a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT123~2B124a/index.md>): DA-TU OLIV 15 — She 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.

## Same root

- [ZA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZA-TI/index.md>) (zāt)
- [TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE/index.md>) (ṯāt ʾikezzer)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Lane; Sabaweb; CAD D
- 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
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- Sabaweb: Nebes, Norbert (director); Multhoff, Anne (lexical editor) (2024), Sabaweb: Belegwörterbuch der sabäischen Sprache (Sabaic Online Dictionary). Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (sabaweb.uni-jena.de); DFG NE 371/10
- 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

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