TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE

with which one curls (the hair)

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Reading
ṯāt ʾikezzer
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ḏāt- ‘that of, she who’ (feminine…) + *kzr ‘to curl the hair’
Kind
Verbal
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Akkadiankezērukezēru ‘to curl the hair’, i-ke-ez-zi-ru in EA 14 ii 56, silver spatulas ‘with which one curls hair’ among gifts from Egypt (CAD K 316); kezertu ‘woman with curled hair’ (CAD K 314)
  • Ugariticd, f. and pl. dt ‘which, who’, the relative (DULAT 252)

Attestations1 cited

  1. KN Zf 313D]SI[ ]SI-ZA-NE-*310 DA-DU-MI-NE QA-MI-*47-NA-RA A-WA-PI TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I A-DA-RA TI-DI-TE-QA-TI TA-SA-ZA TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-REwith which one curls (the hair): ṯāt 'which', the relative (Ug. d, dt), + ʾikezzer, present of Akkadian kezēru 'to curl the hair' (CAD K 316), as in EA 14 ii 56, silver spatulas 'with which one curls hair'; KE dotted (GORILA IV 154–155)

Commentary

KN Zf 31, a silver pin from a Mavro Spelio tomb, end of the second row: TI-DI-TE-QA-TI · TA-SA-ZA · TA-TE-I-KẸ-ZA-RE, KE dotted in GORILA IV 154–155, undotted in Younger. TA-TE ṯāt ‘which’, the feminine relative, ṯ in the T-series as in KA-TA-RE; Ug. d, dt (DULAT 252). I-KE-ZA-RE ʾikezzer ‘one curls’, present of kezēru ‘to curl the hair’ (CAD K 316), the verb of EA 14 ii 56, silver spatulas ‘with which one curls hair’ (i-ke-ez-zi-ru). The root is Akkadian only. I- is the Akkadian-type 3cs prefix, or 1cs ʾi- ‘I curl’. ZA has a where Akkadian has i. One attestation. See TI-DI-TE-QA-TI, A-DA-RA and ZA-TI.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

KN Zf 31Knossos…ta-te-i-ke-za-re
Linear A Lexicon