# KA-TI (Qāti)

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

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

- Reading: Qāti
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*qāt-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S87/index.md>) 'hand'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Eblaite: *qāti* — ga-ti /qāti/ 'hand', personal name (Pagan 1998, row 1975), in 6 texts (EbDA; ARET 1 15 v. 6, 2)
- Ugaritic (rival): *gittu* — gt /gittu/ 'wine or olive press; farmstead, estate' (DULAT 307)
- Hebrew (rival): *gat* — gat 'winepress'; gentilic hag-Gittî 'the Gittite' (2 Sam 6:10; 15:18 hag-Gittîm)

## Attestations

- [HT 63](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT63/index.md>): KA-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.

## Same root

- [QE-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QE-TI/index.md>) (qāti)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Pagan 1998
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- EbDA: Ebla Digital Archives (CNR), Ebla Digital Archives (EbDA): ARET, ARES and MEE text editions. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
- 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
- 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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