# KU-ZU-NI (Kuṯinu)

> personal name, as Ugaritic Kušinu (kṯn)

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

- Reading: Kuṯinu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: Kuṯinu (Pre-Greek)
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · ZU (zu) · NI (ni)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: kṯn (I) PN, syllabic ku-ši-nu (RS 15.09 B I 7; Kinlaw 1967, 76), ki-še-na (RS 16.131; Kinlaw 1967, 73), ki-ši-na (DULAT s.v. kṯn (I))
- Hebrew: Kûšān (כּוּשָׁן) (Hab 3:7), Kûšan Rišʿātayim (Judg 3:8), compared with Ugaritic kṯn (II) (Dijkstra, apud DULAT)

## Attestations

- [HT 13](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT13/index.md>): KU-ZU-NI 18 — personal name, 18; Ugaritic Kušinu (kṯn)
- [HT 85a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85a/index.md>): KU-ZU-NI 5 — personal name, 5 personnel; Ugaritic Kušinu (kṯn)

## Commentary

HT 13 KU-ZU-NI 18, in the KA-U-DE-TA wine list beside TE-TU (Ugaritic tt); HT 85a KU-ZU-NI 5, in a roster counted in men; both tablets also list DA-SI-*118 and TE-KE/TE-KI. ZU writes ṯ as in ZU-DI ṯudī and A-ZU-RA ʾAṯirat: KU-ZU-NI spells Ugaritic kṯn, syllabic ku-ši-nu (RS 15.09 B I 7; Kinlaw 1967, 76), ki-še-na, ki-ši-na, etym. unc. (DULAT s.v. kṯn (I)). Cf. kṯn (II), compared with Hebrew Kûšān (Hab 3:7; Judg 3:8; Dijkstra, apud DULAT s.v. kṯn (II)). Rival: Ug. ktn 'tunic' (DULAT 464), which has t, not ṯ.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: DULAT s.v. kṯn (I); di Mino
- 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
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)

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