DE-JU-KU

personal name, 'burning, kindled'

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Reading
Dalqu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*dalaḳ- ‘to pursue’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • AmoriteDALQ-UM, DALAQ-UM (Gelb 1980, nos. 1396, 1462), under DLQ ‘burn’: dalqum, dalaqum (Gelb AS 21, 17)
  • Hebrewdlqdlq ‘burn, pursue’ (HALOT 223)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 93aDE-JU-KU 1 ¹⁄₂personal name, 'burning, kindled'

Commentary

HT 93a .6 DE-JU-KU 1½, whole and undotted, in a grain list between VIR+[·]-I 6 and O-TI-[·] 3 (GORILA I 147). Amorite DALQ-UM and DALAQ-UM (Gelb 1980, nos. 1396, 1462) and the root DLQ ‘to burn’ in Gelb’s glossary; Hebrew dālaq ‘burn’. JU writes l. Rival: √d-l-g ‘leap’ (Hebrew dālag), with KU for g. One document.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon