# TE-KI (Tegi)

> Tegi 'Beautiful' (personal name; Hurrian tagi/tegi 'beautiful')

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) · KI (ki)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: *tagi* — tagi 'beau', RS voc. te-gi-še 'beau prix'; onom. Tagi(b)-šarri, Tagu(b)-šini, Taguya (Laroche 1980, 249–50); bare name Taki 'good', ta-gi (Mari, VHN 290), ta-ki (Šušarrā), ta-ki-e (Kaneš) (Monti 2017, 299, 413, 456); Amarna ¹ta-gi, ¹ta-a-gi, a Hurrian name (Hess 1993, no. 164)
- Ugaritic: tg PN, Hurrian (DULAT 847)

## Attestations

- [HT 13](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT13/index.md>): TE-KI 27 ¹⁄₂ — personal name 'Beautiful', 27½; Hurrian tegi
- [HT 122a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122a/index.md>): TE-KI 2 — personal name; Hurrian tegi 'beautiful'

## Commentary

HT 13 .3–4 TE-KI 27½, after TE-TU 56 and before KU-ZU-NI 18, under KA-U-DE-TA VIN · TE · (GORILA I 27). HT 122a .3 TE-KI 2, before QA-*310-I 3 (GORILA I 207). HT 85a writes TE-KE 3 in the same set of units (DA-SI-*118, KU-ZU-NI), counted under VIR. Hurrian tagi 'beautiful' (Laroche 1980, 249) as a bare-stem name, as Amarna ¹ta-gi (Hess 1993, no. 164); the Ras Shamra form te-gi-še has e in the first syllable, as TE-KI does. Rival: PS *diḳ(ḳ)- 'small' (Ug. dḳ, DULAT 275). Two attestations.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Laroche 1980; Monti 2017; Hess 1993
- 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)
- Hess, Richard S. (1993), Amarna Personal Names. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake (American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation Series 9)

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