# DU-JA (Tuya)

> Tuya (personal name, hypocoristic in -ya); rival Ḏū-Yā 'He of Yah'

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

- Reading: Tuya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: DU (du) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Nuzi: TUIA, Tu-ú-ia, var. Tu-ú?-ia (NPN 156); -tuja 'H. Perhaps a formative in Akituja' (NPN 268)
- Hittite: Tuya, f. (KBo 28.50 1; Hittite Personal Names 0.1)

## Attestations

- [HT 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT7a/index.md>): DU-JA 4 — personal name, hypocoristic in -ya, 4; rival Ḏū-Yā 'He of Yah'

## Commentary

HT 7a .3 DU-JA 4, whole and undotted, under QE-TI · VIR after I-RU-JA 3, a Hurrian -ja hypocoristic (GORILA I 15). tu-ya sign for sign as the Nuzi name Tu-ú-ia (NPN 156), its element -tuja Hurrian (NPN 268). Rival: Ḏū-Yā 'He of Yah', ḏū as in DU-RU-WI ḏu-luwwī and DA-NA-SI Ḏā-Naśiʾ, + JA = Yā(h), as JA-*21F Yāh (HT 28b). One witness.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; NPN
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- 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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