# QE-TU (qaṭun)

> small (portions)

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

- Reading: qaṭun
- 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)

## 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); rival qṭ 'flax, flaxseed (?)' (DULAT 708)

## Attestations

- [HT 41a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT41a/index.md>): QE-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.

## Same root

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998; 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
- 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
- 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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