# QA-KI-SE-NU-TI (Kaki-šenni-ti)

> personal name, Hurrian type in -šenni 'brother'

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

- Reading: Kaki-šenni-ti
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: QA (qa) · KI (ki) · SE (se) · NU (nu) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: *šēna* — šēna 'brother' with the individualizing -ni, šen=ni, onomastic -šenni (Giorgieri 2000, 202; Wilhelm, Hurrian, 103; Laroche 1980, 225–26): Adal-šenni (RS 11.0839, a-dal-ŠEŠ) and Tulbi-šenni (RS 19.0063+, tul₂-bi-ŠEŠ) at Ugarit; Aku-šenni at Nuzi (NPN, s.v.)

## Attestations

- [CR Zf 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/CRZf1/index.md>): A-MA-WA-SI KA-NI-JA-MI I-JA QA-KI-SE-NU-TI A-TA-DE — personal name (the dedicant)
- [KN Wb 33](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNWb33/index.md>): QA-KI\[

## Commentary

CR(?) Zf 1, a gold pin: A-MA-WA-SI · KA-NI-JA-MI · I-JA · QA-KI-SE-NU-TI · A-TA-DE. The name stands before the 1cs verb A-TA-DE, as the one who makes the pin ready. The second sign is KI, with GORILA IV 146–147, Younger and the photograph. KN Wb 33 joins QA-KI[ (a) and NU-SE (b, read leftward) as QA-KI-SE-NU-[ (Younger, Linear A Texts, other texts). The pattern is DA-KU-SE-NE Takušenni (HT 103) beside DA-KU-SE-NE-TI (HT 104), with the same final -TI. The first element is Hurrian Kakki (Mari, Kaneš), with Kakki-še at Karana (Monti 2017, 252, 453, 388). Rival: an Amorite name on kakka 'weapon', as KAKK-A+MANN-U (Gelb 1980, nos. 3905–3912). QA for the k as Nuzi Qa-ak-ki, var. Ka-ak-ki, Ga-ak-ki, and Kakkiše, Ka-ak-ki-še, ᶠQa-ak-ki-še (NPN 78). Two attestations.

## In the onomasticon

- [QA-KI-SE-NU-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/QA-KI-SE-NU-TI/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Younger, Linear A Texts; Laroche 1980; Giorgieri 2000; Wilhelm, Hurrian; Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943; Monti 2017; Gelb 1980
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- 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
- Giorgieri, Mauro (2000), Schizzo grammaticale della lingua hurrica. La Parola del Passato,55, fasc. I–VI (La civiltà dei Hurriti),171–277
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); 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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