# DU-ZU-WA (ḏū-ṯuwāʕ)

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

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

- Reading: ḏū-ṯuwāʕ
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḏī-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0877/index.md>) 'he who, that which' (masculine demonstrative/relative) + [\*ṯVwVʕ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3807/index.md>) 'noble, lord'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DU (du) · ZU (zu) · WA (wa)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: zu, *ḏū 'he of' in names: Zu-ḫa-di-im, Zu-ḫa-at-nim (Huffmon 1965, 186)
- Akkadian: *šuʾû* — šuʾû 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)
- Ugaritic: *ṯʕ* — ṯʕ (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)
- Hebrew: *šôaʿ* — šôaʿ 'noble, eminent' (HALOT 1444)

## Attestations

- [HT 36](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT36/index.md>): DU-ZU-WA 7 ¹⁄₂ — He 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.

## Same root

- [DU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU/index.md>) (du)
- [DA-QE-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-QE-RA/index.md>) (ḏā-Qīra)
- [DU-RU-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-RU-WI/index.md>) (ḏu-luwwī)
- [QE-SI-ZU-E](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QE-SI-ZU-E/index.md>) (qīši ṯuʿē)
- [DU-MA-I-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-MA-I-NA/index.md>) (ḏū-maʿīna)
- [DU-NE-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-NE-MI/index.md>) (ḏū-naʿmi)
- [KA-\*305](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-*305/index.md>) (ka-ḏā)
- [SE-WA-AU-DE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-WA-AU-DE/index.md>) (šawaʿ-dē)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Huffmon 1965; CAD Š/3; DULAT; Gordon 1966
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- 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
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- CAD Š/3: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1992), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 3. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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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