# QA-TI-KI (Kattike)

> Kattike (Hurrian personal name), on kad- 'to say'; rival katki 'utterance'

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

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

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: kat, katt and the formative -ke, var. -ki (Inniki, Unniki, Zirriki), Nuzi Qa-ti-ri (NPN 224); kad- I, katt- 'to say' (Richter 2012, 195); Mari Katiya, Kattiri (Monti 2017, 255, 432)

## Attestations

- [KH 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH7a/index.md>): QA-TI-KI VIR+\*313b 4 — Hurrian personal name, on kad- 'to say'; rival katki 'utterance'

## Commentary

KH 7a .4 QA-TI-KI VIR+*313b 4, CYP+D ⅓, the entry under I-JA-PA-ME · TA-TA · (GORILA III 29). kat(t)- + the formative -ki (NPN 224), on kad- 'to say' (Richter 2012, 195). Nuzi writes the base with QA (Qa-ti-ri), as QA-TI-DA-TE Kati-tati. Rival: katki 'utterance' (Richter 2012, 196), a noun that cannot draw men. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; NPN; Richter 2012
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- Richter, Thomas (2012), Bibliographisches Glossar des Hurritischen. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); 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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