QA-TI-JU

Qātilu (personal name), 'killer'; rival Hurrian Katiya 'He/She said'

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Reading
Qātilu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ḳtl ‘kill’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Safaiticqtl PN; Arabic Qātila, Qattāl (Harding 1971, 476)
  • HurrianKatiya, ka-ti-ia, kad=i=ya ‘He/She said’, Mari (Monti 2017, 255); Nuzi Kataja, Qa-ta-a-a (NPN 224)

Attestations1 cited

  1. ZA 14QA-TI-JU 8personal name 'Killer', 8; rival Hurrian Katiya

Commentary

ZA 14: QA-TI-JU 8, a name among recipients (ME-KI-DI 1, PU-NI-KA-*363 3, KU-PI 1, TU-MI-TI-ZA-SE 45). JU writes lu: qa-ti-lu, the qātil participle of *ḳtl ‘kill’, a name in Safaitic qtl and Arabic Qātila (Harding 1971, 476). Rival: Hurrian Katiya ‘He/She said’ (Mari ka-ti-ia; Monti 2017, 255), with JU for yu, on the stem of QA-TI-DA-TE Kati-tati. One witness.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon