- Reading
- qaṭun
- 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); rival qṭ ‘flax, flaxseed (?)’ (DULAT 708)
Attestations1 cited
- HT 41aQE-TU 10
Commentary
HT 41a .2 QE-TU 10, complete at the start (GORILA I 79), over *305 ·, *304 10, RE · *304 10, MI-DA-NI · PA-JA 2. QE-TU writes qaṭun ‘small’, the final n unwritten; QE-TU-NE (HT 12) writes it out. Ebla has the name ga-da-na qaṭana ‘the small one’ (Pagan 1998, row 1924); Ugarit qà-ṭú-na (GlOS 1, 358). Weak point: QE for qa. Rival: Ug. qṭ ‘flax, flaxseed (?)’ (DULAT 708), a commodity; or a heading over the *304 entries. One attestation.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.