TE-TU

personal name; Ugaritic tt, syllabic te-et-te, tu-tu

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Reading
Tetu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
Tetu (Pre-Greek)
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritictt PN, etym. unc., syllabic te-et-te, tu-ut-ti, tu-tu (DULAT 869)
  • AkkadianTette, {1}te-et-te, king of Nuḫašše, RS 17.334 (Kinlaw 1967, 119)
  • HurrianTuttu, tu-ut-tu, Mari (Monti 2017, 308)
  • Egyptiantt.w, 12th Dynasty to Thutmose III (PNM v6, personal_names_id 142606772; Ranke I, 385.27)

Attestations3 cited

  1. HT 7aTE-TU 1personal name, 1; Ugaritic tt
  2. HT 13TE-TU 56personal name, 56; Ugaritic tt
  3. HT 85bTE-TU-[…] 1personal name; Ugaritic tt

Commentary

HT 13 .3 TE-TU 56, whole and undotted, the largest share of the KA-U-DE-TA VIN · TE list (KU-RO 130½), beside TE-KI, KU-ZU-NI and DA-SI-*118 (GORILA I 27); HT 7a .5 TE-TU 1, TE over an erasure, under QE-TI · VIR+[?] (GORILA I 15); HT 85b .2–3 TE-TU[, broken after TU (GORILA I 133). Counted one man on two rosters: a person. Ugarit has the personal name tt, syllabic te-et-te, tu-ut-ti, tu-tu, etym. unc. (DULAT 869); Tette, king of Nuḫašše (Kinlaw 1967, 119). A pet-name type found across languages: Egyptian tt.w Tetu (Ranke I, 385.27), Hurrian Tuttu at Mari (Monti 2017, 308), Hittite Tuttu (LAMAN 4579). Rival: Egyptian Teti (Ttj). Two whole witnesses.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon