# JA-KU (Yaqū) > personal name, Amorite type (yaqtul of QWJ) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Yaqū - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*ḳVw-]() 'remain' 1, 'wait' 2 - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: JA (ja) · KU (ku) - Rank: Amorite-linked appendix ## Compared forms - Amorite: JA-QWUJ-U, written ia-ku-ú (Gelb 1980, no. 3314); JA-QWUJ-UM, ia-ku-ú-um and ia-ku-um (nos. 3315, 3317); JA-QWUJ-JA, ia-ku-ia (nos. 3300–3301) - Hebrew: קָוָה *qāwāh* — qāwāh (קָוָה) 'wait for, hope' (Ps 27:14; HALOT 1082) ## Attestations - [MA 2b](): JA-KU 2 ## Commentary MA 2b: ]-RE-TI 4, ]TI 1, JA-KU 2, TI[, a roster of small whole numbers on a three-sided bar (DU-RA 5 on face a). JA-KU matches Amorite ia-ku-ú (Gelb 1980, no. 3314) sign for sign: final *-y is lost in both, and /qu/ is written KU. Same root as KO-JA. JA-KU-TI (KN 1a) carries the same base. Rival: JA-KWUN-U, ia-ku-nu (Gelb 1980, no. 3309), with final n unwritten. Two signs, one attestation. ## Same root - [JA-KU-TI]() (Yaqūti) - [KO-JA]() (Qōya) ## In the onomasticon - [JA-KU](): 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-KU/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.