# DI-KI-SE (Dikise)

> Dikise, personal name, Hurrian tagiše 'beauty'

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

- Reading: Dikise
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: DI (di) · KI (ki) · SE (se)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: *tagi* — tagi 'beautiful'; tagiše/tegiše 'beautiful' or 'beauty', written t/da-a-ki-ši and ta-(a)-ki-(e)-še (Laroche, Glossaire hourrite, pp. 249–50)
- Amarna: Tagi (EA 264–66), mayor of Gintikirmil—Hurrian name, same root

## Attestations

- [HT 87](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT87/index.md>): DI-KI-SE 1 — personal name; possibly Hurrian
- [HT 117b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117b/index.md>): DI-KI-SE 1 — personal name; possibly Hurrian

## Commentary

HT 87 and HT 117b, two lists headed *21F-TU-NE, each count DI-KI-SE 1: on HT 87 between JA-RE-MI 1 and QE-SU-PU 1, on HT 117b after KU-RE-JU 1. Hurrian tagi 'beautiful' and the theme tagiše/tegiše 'beautiful, beauty', written t/da-a-ki-ši and ta-(a)-ki-(e)-še (Laroche 1980, 249–50), under stop and sibilant neutralization; Tagi is a Hurrian personal name in EA 264–66. DI writes the e of tegiše by the Hurrian e/i convention (Laroche 1980, 23). Weak point: no name Tegiše is attested; the held name is Tagi.

## In the onomasticon

- [DI-KI-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/DI-KI-SE/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Laroche 1980
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck

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