TI-DI-TE-QA-TI
'fix it, you have fastened it' (of the pin); rival Tidiʿ-Teqaʿt, personal name 'Teqaʿt knows', after one of the Kotharat
- Reading
- tidī teqaʿti
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Kind
- Verbal
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
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Compared forms
- Arabicwatada, imperfect yatidu, imperative tid, verbal noun tida, ‘fixed a wooden pin or peg’ (Lane 2916–17); watid ‘peg’ (Lane 2917)
- Hebrewyātēdyātēd ‘peg’, for the loom, Judg 16:14, and driven, Judg 4:21; Isa 22:23 (HALOT 451); tāqaʿ ‘to drive in, fasten’, of Samson’s braids fastened with the pin, Judg 16:13–14; ‘blow (a horn), clap’, Ps 47:2 (HALOT 1785); kôšārôt, Ps 68:7 bakkôšārôt ‘with songs of joy’ (HALOT 467)
- UgariticTāqiʿatutqʿt /Tāqiʿatu/, participle of tqʿ, ‘she who applauds’, one of the kṯrt (DULAT 862; GlOS 2, 295), named in their roll, KTU 1.24:49; kṯrt, female singers (HALOT 467) who also preside over childbirth (DULAT 468), sung in KTU 1.24:40–41 ašr ilht kṯrt bnt hll snnt ‘I sing of the goddesses, the Kotharat, daughters of Hilal, the Swallows’; the Kotharat in a name: bnkṯrt ‘son of the Kotharat’, PN (DULAT 226; Gröndahl PTU 152)
- Eblaiteti-da tidaʿti-da tidaʿ ‘she knows’, a name (Pagan 1998, row 4469)
Attestations1 cited
- KN Zf 313D]SI[ ]SI-ZA-NE-*310 DA-DU-MI-NE QA-MI-*47-NA-RA A-WA-PI TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I A-DA-RA TI-DI-TE-QA-TI TA-SA-ZA TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE'fix it, you have fastened it': tidī, imperative of √w-t-d 'to fix a peg', + teqaʿti 'you (f.) have fastened', √t-q-ʿ, the verb of the pin in Samson's braids (Judg 16:13–14)
Commentary
KN Zf 31, a silver pin from a Mavro Spelio tomb, second row: A-DA-RA · TI-DI-TE-QA-TI · TA-SA-ZA, intact and undotted (GORILA IV 154–155). The pin speaks of itself. TI-DI tidī ‘fix it!’, 2fs imperative of √w-t-d ‘to fix a peg’, w dropped as in Arabic tid, tida (Lane 2916–17) and Heb. šēb from yāšab. TE-QA-TI teqaʿti ‘you (f.) have fastened’, -ti 2fs, of √t-q-ʿ, the verb of the pin driven into Samson’s braids (Judg 16:13–14; HALOT 1785); e by Akkadian-type coloring from ʿ. Heb. yātēd ‘peg’ pairs with tāqaʿ (Judg 4:21; Isa 22:23; HALOT 451). Rival: Tidiʿ-Teqaʿt ‘Teqaʿt knows’, a sentence name: tidiʿ 3fs of √y-d-ʿ, the Ebla name ti-da tidaʿ (Pagan 1998, row 4469), i by coloring as in tīde ‘you know’ (Huehnergard 1997, §26.1); Teqaʿt, tqʿt ‘she who applauds’ (DULAT 862), one of the Kotharat, songstresses akin to the Muses (KTU 1.24:40–50). ʿ unwritten in both readings. One attestation. See A-DA-RA, TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE and A-MI-DA-U.