# KA-U-ZU-NI (Kawṯuni)

> Kawṯuni (Hurrian personal name Kaw-šuni); rival Kawṯān, Heb. Kûšān

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

- Reading: Kawṯuni
- 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) · ZU (zu) · NI (ni)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: kaw (NPN 224); Kawiya, kav=i=ya (Monti 2017, 346); -šuni in Awa-šuni, A-wa-šu-ni (NPN 208)
- Ugaritic: Hurrian ảủpš, var. ảủpṯ, ảủpṯn, syll. a-up-šu (DULAT 4); kṯn PN, ku-ši-nu; kṯn TN, cf. Heb. kwšn (DULAT 467)

## Attestations

- [HT 26b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT26b/index.md>): KA-U-ZU-NI 4

## Commentary

HT 26b .2–3 KA-U-ZU-NI 4, a count of men under VIR+[?] 9, between ]-RO-NI 3 and KI+MU 12 (GORILA I 47). ka-u-ṯu-ni: Hurrian kaw (NPN 224) + -šuni (Awa-šuni, NPN 208), the Hurrian š in ZU = ṯu as Ugarit writes ảủpš also ảủpṯ (DULAT 4). Same base as KA-U-DE-TA Kaw-tatta. Rival: Kawṯān, the place name kṯn, Heb. Kûšān (DULAT 467; Hab 3:7). One witness.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; NPN; DULAT
- 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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