# KO-A-DU-WA (Qō-Addua) > personal name, 'Hope in Addu' (Amorite Quwi-Haddu); rival an Anatolian name in Kuwa- A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Qō-Addua - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*ḳVw-]() 'remain' 1, 'wait' 2 + [\*hadad-]() 'thunder' - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: KO (ko) · A (a) · DU (du) · WA (wa) ## Compared forms - Amorite: Gelb AS 21: Quwi-Haddu KU-U₂-ᴰ-IM (no. 4146, Mari); Quwum-Haddu KU-UM-ᴰ-U (no. 4162, Ugarit, MRS XVI 9:7) - Ugaritic: qwy, personal name 'Awaited' (KTU 4.795:11; DULAT 710; Watson 2012, 336) - Hebrew: קָוָה *qāwāh* — קָוָה qāwāh 'await, hope' (HALOT 1082) - Akkadian: *quʾʾû* — quʾʾû 'to wait' (CAD Q 328) ## Attestations - [TY 3a](): KO-A-DU-WA OLE 7 ¹⁄₅ ## Commentary TY 3a .6 KO-A-DU-WA [OLE] 7⅕, the four signs whole at the head of the line, the second entry under Ạ-DA OLE+U 21; it takes plain oil where the section's other lines are grades (GORILA I 327). KO is qō, as in KO-JA Qōya (√q-w-y 'await, hope'); A-DU is Addu, as cuneiform writes it second in LA-AḪ-WI-A-DU (Gelb AS 21, no. 4216); Ugaritic has the bare name qwy 'Awaited' (Watson 2012, 336). -DU-WA writes the glide before a final -a, as A-SU-PU-WA and Amorite AM-MU-WA-DA (Gelb AS 21, no. 773): either the god's other name, Hadda, which alternates with Haddu in IŠ-MA-A-DA and IŠ-MA-ᴰ-IM (nos. 3808, 3810), or a feminine -a(t), as Amorite Baʿlah and ʿAštarah, though no feminine of Addu is attested. Rival: an Anatolian name in Kuwa- (Kuwattalla). One attestation. ## Same root - [A-DU \*307+\*307]() (Addu dubur-dubur) - [A-DU]() (ʾAddu / adû) - [A-DU-NI-TA-NA]() (ʾAddu-nittāna) - [A-DU-KU-MI-NA]() (ʾAddu-kummina) - [JA-KU]() (Yaqū) - [JA-KU-TI]() (Yaqūti) - [KO-JA]() (Qōya) ## In the onomasticon - [KO-A-DU-WA](): Personal name, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; HALOT; DULAT; Watson 2012; CAD Q - KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2 - 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 - 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 - CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt - 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 - Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2012), Ugaritic Onomastics (8). Aula Orientalis,30,323–351 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KO-A-DU-WA/ 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 444a40b1.