# KU-DA (Gūda)

> Gūda 'luck' (personal name), Amorite Guʾuda; rivals Kutta, qāʾid 'chief'

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

- Reading: Gūda
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*gd](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3243/index.md>) 'to be lucky, fortunate; luck, fortune'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · DA (da)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: GUʾUD-A, GU-U₂-DA, an Ur III name (Gelb 1980, no. 1791)

## Attestations

- [HT 122a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122a/index.md>): KU-DA 1 — personal name, 1, added below the total and counted in PO-TO-KU-RO 97 (HT122b); Amorite Guʾuda (Gelb 1980, no. 1791); rivals Kutta, qāʾid 'chief'

## Commentary

HT 122a, after KU-RO 31: KU-DA 1, the one man that brings the two faces to PO-TO-KU-RO 97 (HT 122b; 31 + 65 + 1), a name added below the total. Amorite GUʾUD-A, written GU-U₂-DA (Gelb 1980, no. 1791), sign for sign with the glottal stop unwritten; KU writes gu. Sanmartín files gu-ú-da under gudd, gūd 'luck; DN' (GlOS 1, 175). Rivals: Kutta, Ku-ut-ta, a name NPN marks H.? (NPN 231); qāʾid 'chief' (#51; Sabaic qwd, Beeston 1982, 110). One witness.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; NPN; GlOS 1
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- Beeston, A.F.L., M.A. Ghul, W.W. Müller & J. Ryckmans (1982), Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Peeters / Librairie du Liban
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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