# QA-TI-JU (Qātilu) > Qātilu (personal name), 'killer'; rival Hurrian Katiya 'He/She said' A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Qātilu - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*ḳtl]() 'kill' - Kind: Personal name - Language: Semitic - Signs: QA (qa) · TI (ti) · JU (ju) ## Compared forms - Safaitic: qtl PN; Arabic Qātila, Qattāl (Harding 1971, 476) - Hurrian: Katiya, ka-ti-ia, kad=i=ya 'He/She said', Mari (Monti 2017, 255); Nuzi Kataja, Qa-ta-a-a (NPN 224) ## Attestations - [ZA 14](): QA-TI-JU 8 — personal 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. ## In the onomasticon - [QA-TI-JU](): Personal name, Semitic ## Related forms - QA-TI-DA-TE (HT12) - QA-TI-KI (KH7a) ## References - Reading: di Mino; Harding 1971; Monti 2017 - NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago - Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press - Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle) --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-TI-JU/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.