QE-TU-NE

small, fine (amounts)—quality term over the QA₂-ligature entry

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Reading
qaṭunē
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ḳVṭVn- ‘be small, be thin’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewqāṭōn, qāṭān ‘small’ (HALOT 1093)
  • Akkadianqatnuqatnu ‘thin, fine, narrow’ (CAD Q 173)
  • Ugaritic𐎖𐎉𐎐qṭnqṭn ‘small’ (Huehnergard 2012, glossary)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 12QE-TU-NE QA2+[?]+PU 1small/fine (amounts) — quality designation

Commentary

HT 12: QE-TU-NE · QA₂+[?]+PU 1, after QA-TI-DA-TE · OLE+DI 5 and *304 5, before E 30 and MA+RU · *118 5 (GORILA I 25). QE-TU-NE writes qaṭunē, *qaṭun- ‘small, thin’ with -ē: Heb. qāṭōn, qāṭān; Akk. qatnu ‘thin, fine’; Ug. qṭn. QE-TU (HT 41a) is the form without the ending. Ebla writes the name ga-da-ne beside ga-da-nu, ga-da-na (GlOS 1, 358); see QE-TU. Weak point: QE for qa. Rival: a heading or name over the QA₂ entry. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon