KA-TI

personal name Qāti 'Hand'; rivals Gattī 'the man of the press, the Gittite', Qəhātî 'Kohathite', Kittî 'Kittian'

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Reading
Qāti
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*qāt- ‘hand’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Eblaiteqātiga-ti /qāti/ ‘hand’, personal name (Pagan 1998, row 1975), in 6 texts (EbDA; ARET 1 15 v. 6, 2)
  • Ugaritic (rival)gittugt /gittu/ ‘wine or olive press; farmstead, estate’ (DULAT 307)
  • Hebrew (rival)gatgat ‘winepress’; gentilic hag-Gittî ‘the Gittite’ (2 Sam 6:10; 15:18 hag-Gittîm)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 63KA-TI 1

Commentary

HT 63 .1 KA-TI 1, both signs whole and undotted, under the personnel logogram *305, after TE 1 and before the name SU-PU₂ (GORILA I 118–119). The name Qāti ‘Hand’, as Ebla ga-ti (Pagan 1998, row 1975); KA writes qa. Rivals: Gattī, gat ‘press’ with the nisbe -ī, the Ugaritic gt being both the press and the estate around it; Qəhātî ‘Kohathite’ (Num 3:27), the medial h unwritten; Kittî ‘Kittian’ (Gen 10:4 Kittîm), against the a of KA. One witness. See QE-TI.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon