# QE-TI (qāti)

> in the charge of (list heading); Akk. qātu 'hand; charge'

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

- Reading: qāti
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*qāt-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S87/index.md>) 'hand'
- Kind: Unknown
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QE (qe) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *qātu* — qātu 'hand; authority, custody, charge' (CAD Q 183)
- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎚 *qt* — qt 'handle' (DULAT 708)

## Attestations

- [HT 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT7a/index.md>): QE-TI VIR+\[?\] — in the charge of (list heading)

## Commentary

HT 7a: QE-TI · VIR+[?] heads a list of five men with numbers. Akk. qātu 'hand; custody, charge' (CAD Q 183), the word that marks whose charge a list records; QE writes qā. Cf. QẸ-TI-RA-DU · VIR+[?] (HT 58), in the same slot. Rival: a personal name, as Ebla ga-ti qāti 'hand' (Pagan 1998, row 1975). One attestation. See KA-TI.

## Same root

- [KA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-TI/index.md>) (Qāti)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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

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