# QA-QA-DA (qaqqadu)

> head, top, capital (Akkadian qaqqadu(m))

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

- Reading: qaqqadu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳVdḳVd-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1952/index.md>) 'skull, head'
- Kind: Body part
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QA (qa) · QA (qa) · DA (da)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *qaqqadu* — qaqqadu 'head; top; original amount, principal' (CAD Q 100, 108–109)
- Hebrew: קָדְקֹד *qodqōd* — qodqōd (קָדְקֹד) 'crown of the head' (Gen 49:26)
- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎄𐎖𐎄 *qdqd* — qdqd 'skull, crown' (DULAT 684)

## Attestations

- [PE 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PE2/index.md>): QA-QA-DA ¹⁄₂

## Commentary

PE 2, among fractional entries: A-RI-PA ¼, QA-QA-DA ½, TO-ME ⅓. QA-QA-DA writes qaqqada, the geminate unmarked, as QA-QA-RU qaqqaru. Akk. qaqqadu 'head; original amount, principal' (CAD Q 100, 109). Rival: a personal name, as on the neighbouring entries: Qaqqadum (Old Babylonian, ORACC rimanum), Amorite qa-aq-qa-da-an, Ebla ga-ga-da-nu (GlOS 1, 340). One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 1
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- 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
- CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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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