# QA-\*118 (qaṭṭ(u))

> flax, linseed—field-crop commodity

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

- Reading: qaṭṭ(u)
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ḳVṭ(Vw)-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3781/index.md>) 'flax, flax seed'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QA (qa) · \*118

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎉 *qṭ* — qṭ (I) 'flax, linseed'
- Akkadian: *kitû* — kitû 'flax, linen'
- Aramaic: *kittānā* — kittānā 'linen, flax'
- Sumerian: *gada* — gada 'flax'
- Greek: χιτών — χιτών 'tunic' (loan from the same family)

## Attestations

- [KH 10](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH10/index.md>): I-PA-SA-JA QA-\*118 — flax, linseed

## Commentary

KH 10, a Khania grain ledger (GRA 10 … A-KI-PI-E-TE GRA 90): flax beside grain, as in Ugaritic field-crop records. Ug. qṭ (I) 'flax', n. m. (DULAT 708), four times in KTU: the hippiatric prescriptions 1.71, 1.72 and 1.85 (št bln qṭ, linseed ground with mixed fodder) and 4.166:4, ḫmš mỉṣpt qṭ 'five m. of flax' in an administrative list; ḥwt qṭ (2.36:17) is a place name, qṭ (II). The Wanderwort *kito- 'flax, linen': Akk. kitû, Aram. kittānā, Sum. gada, Gk. χιτών, the Ugaritic branch with q for k. *118 at ṭa gives the emphatic the root requires. Rival: Aram. qaṭṭ- 'cucumber' (PS *qVšVʾ-: Syr. qaṭṭūṯā, Akk. qiššû), with ṭ for *118. Weak points: ṭa for *118 is a proposed value whose corpus test fails; QA-*118 has no number of its own, after I-PA-SA-JA ·, and the GRA 90 below belongs to A-KI-PI-E-TE.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- 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

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