# TE-TU (Tetu)

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

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

- Reading: Tetu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: Tetu (Pre-Greek)
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TE (te) · TU (tu)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: tt PN, etym. unc., syllabic te-et-te, tu-ut-ti, tu-tu (DULAT 869)
- Akkadian: Tette, {1}te-et-te, king of Nuḫašše, RS 17.334 (Kinlaw 1967, 119)
- Hurrian: Tuttu, tu-ut-tu, Mari (Monti 2017, 308)
- Egyptian: tt.w, 12th Dynasty to Thutmose III (PNM v6, personal_names_id 142606772; Ranke I, 385.27)

## Attestations

- [HT 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT7a/index.md>): TE-TU 1 — personal name, 1; Ugaritic tt
- [HT 13](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT13/index.md>): TE-TU 56 — personal name, 56; Ugaritic tt
- [HT 85b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85b/index.md>): TE-TU-\[…\] 1 — personal 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.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT
- 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
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)
- 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)
- PNM: Ilin-Tomich, Alexander (2025), Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM), version 6. Zenodo (Freie Universität Berlin); CC BY 4.0

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