# KA-U-DE-TA (Kaw-tatta)

> Kaw-tatta (Hurrian personal name), kaw- + tatt- 'love'; rival Ugaritic PN kwt

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

- Reading: Kaw-tatta
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: KA (ka) · U (u) · DE (de) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: kaw, Qa-wi-in-ni (NPN 224); Kawiya, kav=i=ya (Monti 2017, 346); tat 'love', tatt, Allai-tatta (NPN 263); Tatta, tatt=a, Mari (Monti 2017, 302); Tatta, da-da, da-da-e, Terqa (Monti 2017, 325)
- Ugaritic: kwn PN, 'the element kaw=', ka-ú-a-ni; kwt PN (DULAT 469)

## Attestations

- [HT 13](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT13/index.md>): KA-U-DE-TA VIN TE — personal name, heading the list; Hurrian kaw- + tatt- 'love'

## Commentary

HT 13 .1 KA-U-DE-TA, heading the wine list VIN · TE · to RE-ZA, TE-TU, TE-KI, KU-ZU-NI, DA-SI-*118 and I-DU-NE-SI, KU-RO 130½ (GORILA I 27). KA-U = kaw-, as A-RA-U-DA ʾArwada: Hurrian kaw (NPN 224; Kawiya, Monti 2017, 346) + tatt- 'love' (NPN 263). Terqa writes Tatta da-da, da-da-e (Monti 2017, 325): D for t, and e beside a. Cf. Kawinni, written Qa-wi-in-ni, Qa-we-en-ni, Ka-wi-ni and Ga-wi-in (NPN 224), and Šenna-tati, written Še-en-da-ti (NPN 263). Both elements are attested, never together. Rival: the Ugaritic name kwt, which leaves DE (DULAT 469). One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [KA-U-DE-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KA-U-DE-TA/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; NPN; Monti 2017
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- 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
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)

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