# TA₂-TI-TE (Tati-te)

> Tati-te, '(Teššup) loved' (Hurrian personal name, hypocoristic)

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

- Reading: Tati-te
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: TA₂ (ta₂) · TI (ti) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: *tad-* — tad- 'aimer' (Laroche GLH 248); tat 'H. … Cf. tat, "love," in Tuš.' (NPN 263); Nuzi TATI, Ta-ti, and TATIP-TEŠUP, Ta-ti-ip-te-šup (NPN 150); -te, the 'shortened var.' of -teja, itself the hypocoristic of -tešup (NPN 264)

## Attestations

- [PK 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PK1/index.md>): TA₂-TI-TE 1 — '(Teššup) loved' (Hurrian personal name), 1

## Commentary

PK 1 .3 TA₂-TI-TE 1, whole and undotted, before O-KA-MI-ZA-SI-I-NA, in a roster of names each counted 1 (GORILA I 281). ta-ti-te: Nuzi Ta-ti beside Tatip-tešup (NPN 150), with -te for -tešup (NPN 264), 'Teššup loved'. TA₂ writes a t-, its vowel open. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [TA₂-TI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TA~E2~82~82-TI-TE/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; NPN; Laroche GLH
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- 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

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