DU-ZU-WA

He of the Lord (personal name; ḏū 'he of' + ṯuwāʕ 'lord'); rival 'the noble one'

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Reading
ḏū-ṯuwāʕ
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ḏī- ‘he who, that which’ (masculine…) + *ṯVwVʕ- ‘noble, lord’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Amoritezu, *ḏū ‘he of’ in names: Zu-ḫa-di-im, Zu-ḫa-at-nim (Huffmon 1965, 186)
  • Akkadianšuʾûšuʾû A (šuwāʾu) ‘master, lord’; šu-ʾ-u = šarru (LTBA 2 2:30); Old Akkadian appellative su-wa-um, a recipient of land (BIN 8 203:9) (CAD Š/3 417)
  • Ugariticṯʕṯʕ (II) ‘Hero, Noble’, title of Kirta: krt ṯʕ (KTU 1.14 IV 37) (DULAT 879–880); Gordon reads ‘Kret of Thaʿ’, a tribe the scribe Ilimilku shares as ‘the Thaʿite’ (Gordon 1966, 74 n. 30, 120 n. 75)
  • Hebrewšôaʿšôaʿ ‘noble, eminent’ (HALOT 1444)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 36DU-ZU-WA 7 ¹⁄₂He of the Lord (personal name), 7 ½; rival 'the noble one'

Commentary

HT 36 .2 DU-ZU-WA at the end of the line after the 44 ½ of the .1 heading JE-DI *307+*307-GRA+QE, its 7 ½ on .3 over an erasure (GORILA I 69). All three signs whole and undotted. DU ḏū ‘he of’, as in DU-RU-WI and the Amorite names Zu-ḫa-di-im, Zu-ḫa-at-nim (Huffmon 1965, 186); ZU-WA ṯuwā(ʕ) ‘lord’, the w written and the final ʕ unwritten, as Akkadian šuwāʾu ‘master, lord’ and the Old Akkadian appellative su-wa-um, borne by a recipient of land (BIN 8 203:9; CAD Š/3 417). A recipient of grain in the Idaean’s account: the lord’s man. Rival: ḏū ‘possessor of’, ‘the noble one’, as Arabic ḏū. One attestation. Cf. QE-SI-ZU-E.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon