# KU-KU-DA-RA (Kukkadal)

> Kukkadal (Hurrian personal name), kukk- + adal 'strong'; rival ḳdr 'dark'

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

- Reading: Kukkadal
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: KU (ku) · KU (ku) · DA (da) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: kukk, ᶠKukku, Kukkuia, ᶠKukk-urašše (NPN 90, 229); adal 'strong', Akkadian adallu = gašru (Laroche GLH s.v. adali), -atal, -adal in Zi-li-ip-a-da-al, Ḫa-ši-ba-da-al, Pu-ut-ti-ma-da-al (NPN 207); Mari Tawen-atal, tav=i=n(na)-adal 'Strong, pour (him)!' (VHN 297; Monti 2017, 302)
- Linear B: ku-ka-da-ro, a man at Knossos, KN Uf 836.b (DMic I)

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>): KU-KU-DA-RA 1 — Kukkadal (Hurrian personal name), kukk- + adal 'strong'; rival ḳdr 'dark'

## Commentary

HT 117a .7 KU-KU-DA-RA 1, all four signs whole and undotted, the first name under SA-TA Šata (GORILA I 197). Hurrian kukk- (NPN 229; ᶠKukku, Kukkuia, ᶠKukk-urašše, NPN 90) + adal 'strong' (Laroche GLH s.v. adali; NPN 207; Mari Tawen-atal 'Strong, pour (him)!', Monti 2017, 302), DA for d as Nuzi Zi-li-ip-a-da-al and Ur III Ḫa-ši-ba-da-al write it (NPN 207), RA for the final l. Linear B ku-ka-da-ro, a man at Knossos (KN Uf 836.b; DMic I), writes the a of adal. Both elements are attested, never together; Laroche counts Kuku among the Lallnamen (GLH Intro §6). Rival: ḳdr 'dark' (PS *ḳVḏar-/*ḳVḏur-) with KU-KU reduplicated, as KI-DA-RO Qidaru in the same roster. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; NPN; Laroche GLH; Monti 2017
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- 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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