# DE-JU-KU (Dalqu)

> personal name, 'burning, kindled'

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

- Reading: Dalqu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dalaḳ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2661/index.md>) 'to pursue; to burn/kindle'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DE (de) · JU (ju) · KU (ku)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: DALQ-UM, DALAQ-UM (Gelb 1980, nos. 1396, 1462), under DLQ 'burn': dalqum, dalaqum (Gelb AS 21, 17)
- Hebrew: *dlq* — dlq 'burn, pursue' (HALOT 223)

## Attestations

- [HT 93a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT93a/index.md>): DE-JU-KU 1 ¹⁄₂ — personal 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.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- 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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