# TE-KE (Tegi)

> Tegi (personal name; spelling of TE-KI)

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

- Reading: Tegi
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: TE (te) · KE (ke)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: Taki 'Good': ta-ke-e, Šubat-Enlil (Monti 2017, 351); ta-gi, Mari (ibid., 299); ta-ki, Šušarrā (ibid., 413); ta-ki-e, Kaneš (ibid., 456)
- Ugaritic: tg PN, Hurrian (DULAT 847)

## Attestations

- [HT 85a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85a/index.md>): TE-KE 3 — personal name; Hurrian tegi 'beautiful' (spelling of TE-KI)

## Commentary

HT 85a .5 TE-KE 3, whole and undotted, sixth of seven entries under A-DU · *307+*307 · VIR+[?] ·, after KU-ZU-NI 5 (GORILA I 131). HT 13 lists DA-SI-*118, KU-ZU-NI and TE-KI in the same order; TE-KE is TE-KI with the e/i alternation. See TE-KI.

## In the onomasticon

- [TE-KE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TE-KE/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Laroche 1980
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- 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
- 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
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)

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