# QE-TU-NE (qaṭunē)

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

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

- Reading: qaṭunē
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳVṭVn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/980/index.md>) 'be small, be thin'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QE (qe) · TU (tu) · NE (ne)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: qāṭōn, qāṭān 'small' (HALOT 1093)
- Akkadian: *qatnu* — qatnu 'thin, fine, narrow' (CAD Q 173)
- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎉𐎐 *qṭn* — qṭn 'small' (Huehnergard 2012, glossary)

## Attestations

- [HT 12](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT12/index.md>): QE-TU-NE QA2+\[?\]+PU 1 — small/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.

## Same root

- [QE-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QE-TU/index.md>) (qaṭun)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 1
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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